Yeah we've all talked about how No True Scotsman defenses aren't helpful with Christianity ("No one involved with the Spanish Inquisition was a REAL Christian") and I don't think it's useful for movements on the left to do it either ("Nor REAL feminists", "Not REAL socialists")https://twitter.com/9BillionTigers/status/1251625258253078528 …
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It's like the people who define "true Christianity" such that true Christians nebulously may have existed for like 50 years in the 1st century and then vanished until liberal universalism in the 19th century
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Okay perhaps I am misunderstanding what the basics of feminism are, but I'm apparently not expressing myself clearly and am too tired (literally, not like "tired of this") to try further so I'll just step out of the convo
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Sure, hope I've not been rude. We can start from a historical & sociological position of studying what's been done in the name of "feminism" or a philosophical & moral position of deciding what feminism is allowed to be. Both have advantages. I think that's the difference here.
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No, lots of "inverts" and borderline male impersonators among the suffragettes. Any negative general sentiments were closer to transmisogyny but even that I think goes too far.
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Fair enough
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