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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A view of liberation - in this case "sex-based rights" - based on first building a wall, then rooting out everyone on the wrong side of it by force
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@BootlegGirl extending the trans metaphor of the Matrix, the paranoid terror of Agents The fear that at any time any random person - a friend, a coworker, a lover, a bystander - can suddenly become an enforcer of the law, subject you to interrogation and threats1 reply 5 retweets 127 likesShow this thread -
She never said anything about trans people AFAIK because the concept was still only just starting to be named in the West at the time But the patron saint of TERFs absolutely is Mary Sophia Allen, perhaps the most famous suffragette-turned-fascist
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Who, even before she became a Hitler fan, was a wannabe cop and a cop-lover Fanatically devoted to the cause of women's police auxiliaries as a pathway to full-fledged women cops Fantasizing about women fighting back against men via the power to arrest and incarcerate
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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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