I just don't know that "These people aren't even X" instead of "These people are bad examples of X who give X a bad name" is a useful way to argue Like the former seems to much more readily turn into an academic debate where once you say it you don't have to do anythinghttps://twitter.com/9BillionTigers/status/1272279357340348416 …
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Like that's the thing, the transphobes and TERFs actually are literally merging The antifeminist Religious Right realized that using the toolkit of talking points the TERFs created was very effective, more powerful than them going mask-off with their own talking points
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You have people like Rod Dreher approvingly citing The Transsexual Empire and talking about "male-pattern violence" and whatnot The fact that this is in many ways a blatantly disingenuous, manipulative play doesn't matter, it works really well
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Yeah. I mean, overall, TERF Is probably fine for anyone transphobic, but there are some TERFs who are feminists and some who hate feminism. You just can't define them out independently.
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Yeah I won't say that the set of transphobes in question aren't feminists, but somehow I don't think they're all read up on their MacKinnon. I try not to use TERF as a catch all term for transphobe.
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I think there’s more than a few terf women claiming to be feminists who are lying. The way they switch positions on key elements, like “what is a woman”, suggests to me that they don’t have any attachment to or knowledge of those elements. Unless feminist=woman, I guess.
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When I'm being attacked using feminist language against men (that I used to think was an anti-feminist strawman) I am definitely being attacked by a feminist who wants to paint me as a man so she can use that language to exclude me from the movement she is a part of.
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