I am very resistant to and pissed off by TERFs trying to make the "TRAs are just a kind of MRA" shit happen But this is why I push back on people who specifically try dunk on TERFs as "man-hating" It's a bad habit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Sometimes the post being dunked on is wildly unhinged and it's hard to resist but it gives people like smol ammo for threads exactly like this one It attacks exactly the wrong thing and it directly feeds the narrative TERFs want, it's the fight they want to have
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I'm a man and I don't think killing all men is a great thing to be fantasizing about all the time but *this is the argument they want to have*, they want to put you in the position of being the Apologist for Men so everyone traumatized and harmed by men sees them as their ally
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
The important thing to point out is that man-hating fantasies are unrealistic and go nowhere, that their own leadership very much knows this, and that they are selling this narrative to people to exploit them for an agenda that very much DOES empower men
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Sometimes it's not even subtle, like how tons of Scottish TERFs in politics are just Alex Salmond loyalists who seized on this issue as just a convenient way to attack Nicola Sturgeon
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Hence this bizarre spectacle of politicos in Scotland suddenly claiming loyalty to the tenets of radical feminism who, five minutes ago, were angrily defending their guy against "trumped-up" sexual misconduct allegations
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
So performative man-hating is annoying and silly sometimes but it's not the thing to fight It's going to crumple up and vanish like the morning dew the instant the situation involves a man with any power By "men" they really mean "trans women" and ONLY "trans women"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Right. It's an interesting dynamic because there absolutely is room for hating guys in regular feminism. It's just that those guys are usually, like, Ted Cruz. Or some rapist. Y'know, guys that suck. Guys furthering patriarchy explicitly.
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Replying to @eggynack @arthur_affect and
But in the move from "hating these guys" to "hating all guys", the part where there's any substantial hatred at all directed at the Ted Cruz's of the world seems to dissipate into nothingness. He somehow sublimates off the chopping block.
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It's a very interesting dynamic where if it's virtuous to hate ALL men, without exception, because they're all as bad as each other and any harm to any man is a victory against men as a group, then the cheapest/easiest way to do this is to hate the weakest, most vulnerable men
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
And hey, whaddya know, it turns out that you get a lot of success and momentum doing that The rich powerful men will even help you do it, mysteriously And it's easiest of all when the "men" you're attacking are trans women
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
I mean I don't want to say it's only about this one issue, although TERFism is very clearly the most virulent modern strain of what's called "white feminism" or "bourgeois feminism" You see it lots of places
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