I guess apropos of everything that's going on I should talk again about how TERFism reads strongly to me as "cop feminism" That even if you strip away all the specific stuff about hating trans people in particular, it's an identifiable pro-cop "style" of feminism (and activism)
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Going to Hitler's house to enthusiastically exhort him to consider giving a greater role to women in the Gestapo
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She's mostly remembered now as a bizarre crank, like how she wore a police uniform every day for the rest of her life even after she didn't work there anymore She became an embarrassment after the war started and Hitler wasn't cool anymore
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But she's so, so relevant to UK mainstream feminism right now Her ghost is whispering constantly in the Guardian and the New Statesman This incredible pettiness, this sheer relish at the idea of interrogating and investigating
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Gleefully posting about the day they can finally lay hands on the creepy men infiltrating their restrooms and changing rooms and chuck them into prison - *men's prison* - where they belong Openly using "policing" as a positive term - "We have the right to police our spaces"
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