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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Replying to @eggynack @mssilverstein and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
It's what powers the white feminist/neocon convergence, when you see self-IDed feminists who are very self-righteous about hating men and wishing death on men IN OTHER COUNTRIES Treating it as a victory for womankind as a whole to bomb "backward patriarchal Muslims" in Iraq
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Replying to @arthur_affect @eggynack and
You sound like the MRAs who blame feminists for the existence of the draft, as though that wasn't males deciding that it was okay to make poor males die for their egos and fortunes.
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I don't know how to break this to you, but women do in fact have power and agency and sometimes things can be their fault Sometimes large groups of both women and men can do something, and then the women will be *partially* at fault
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LauraLyfe and
The idea that, if men are involved in something, they instantly take over all power and responsibility and the women become their helpless pawns, is not flattering to women It is, in its own way, deeply sexist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LauraLyfe and
The patriarchy is one of those terms that both kind of explains the issue while also making it easier for some people to dodge responsibility. "Women can't be involved in upholding the status quo, it's called the *patriarchy*!"
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