I want you to understand in the strongest terms possible that I don't define my beliefs based on "some government somewhere currently says." I would think it would be obvious as to why.
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Replying to @Eristae @arthur_affect and
That is cool neither do i I should point out though that terf makes no sense as an insult. Not only am I and most women not radical feminist, but radical feminists ALWAYS include transmen in their activism because their feminism is about female sex and root of their oppression
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Replying to @GiniAndInsomnia @arthur_affect and
Then spending all this time fussing that I used "TERF" was silly. I personally don't like "TERF" because not all TERFs are feminists of any kind (according to them) but there isn't a better term, so...
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Replying to @Eristae @arthur_affect and
I'm fussing because as an actual feminist, any insult created solely to denigrate and silence women i find disgusting Terf is as bad as c*** and b**** and any sexist slur you can think off Even more that terf is used to by misogynistic men to promote violence towards women
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Replying to @GiniAndInsomnia @arthur_affect and
It's not a slur.
People don't like TERFs (and TERFs can be men) because TERFs act in horrible ways.
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Replying to @Eristae @arthur_affect and
Oh really? Is that why no man on the internet ever is called a terf? I am not doing any bad things. On the contrary i am campaigning for safe guarding of children, retaining boundaries and women's rights. What are you doing except for insulting and dehumanising women?
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Replying to @GiniAndInsomnia @Eristae and
Jesse Singal is a TERF, Graham Linehan is a TERF, Andrew Sullivan is a TERF There, now you've just seen me do it three times, and it's absolutely not the first time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
This is kind of ridiculous and - I'm almost ashamed to say this - unfair to people like Graham Linehan You've seen his self-pitying screeds about being the "most hated person on the Internet"?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
To the extent that the word "TERF" is preferentially used for women that's because of TERFs You all are the ones demanding that we see your "movement" as one of women, by women, for women "Men cannot be feminists, they can only be allies" and all that shit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
It's usually your critics who ignore this pointless distinction and point out it's a distortion of what's actually going on in the movement that shields certain people's actions Graham Linehan is not an "ally to TERFs", he just is a TERF, and one of the central ones
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(Now I'm remembering the hilarious self-own where they tried to come up with a hashtag to support Linehan while following their own rules and came up with #GlinnerIsAnAlly, which parses the same as #GlinnerIsAnally)
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