Do we know that the suffragists were terfs? Did they ever have occasion to be otherwise?
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Replying to @thedogshala @mprodriguez2007
I'm not aware that "trans issues" per se ever came up directly with them but the specific suffragists who became fascists can be attributed to having a particular emphasis on "law and order" as an essential tool to "protect women's spaces"
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As a general cultural value that "protecting X spaces" mindset is a core predictor of fascism It's what the Fourteen Words are based on (and there's specifically a variant of the 14W that says "white women" instead of "white children")
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Mary Sophia Allen in particular is an almost cartoonishly perfect case study of this mindset Her overriding obsession in her early years was women as police officers, her greatest dream was to someday serve as a cop in her own right and not in a "women's reserve"
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In her later, more "eccentric" years as an open fascist she wore a police uniform every day and didn't seem to own any other clothes Her open admiration for Hitler was based on his putting the country under military control and putting an end to "lawlessness"
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And she was very, very, very invested in the concept of "protecting women's spaces" A lot of her work was about arguing for female cops and security officers to patrol all-female institutions - factory floors, rooming houses - to keep all men out Only then could women be free
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Note that this was a very old school Victorian idea of "protecting women", of protecting virtue and purity Consent wasn't the issue, lack of consent was generally assumed, the goal was for lady cops to both kick men out of women's buildings and kick out any women sneaking em in
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...So I don't know if she was a TERF but she was of course a SWERF Those two have a tendency to follow each other nowadays
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mprodriguez2007
Sex worker exclusive....means...she didn't have any sympathy for SWs and didn't care to protect them from exploitation and violence?
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Replying to @thedogshala @mprodriguez2007
It means that in practice she advocated policies that harm sex workers by making it illegal for them to work
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She of course saw it as "rescuing women from prostitution", which SWERFs still do
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mprodriguez2007
#nordicmodelnow The customers should be criminalised...not the workers.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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