(The reason I say Jesse Singal is a TERF and not "TERF-adjacent" is the time he dug up a tweet of mine I think was extremely anodyne -- "Of course I believe sexism is rooted in reproductive biology, but the connections aren't simple or stable" -- and dunking on it)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
("The oppression of women based on being smaller and weaker and being the sex that gives birth isn't SIMPLE or STABLE? Only a man could EVER say shit like this" And then his followers piled on me for a while So yeah, he's fundamentally a TERF)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
To get into the weeds a little here, I've seen people try out the dunk "They shouldn't even be called TERFs, they should be called TECFs, Trans-Exclusionary Cultural Feminists", but that one is too inside-baseball to have gotten much traction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
I.e. back in the actual 1970s, among people who self-identified as "radical feminists", people tried to claim there was a difference between actual radical feminism and "cultural feminism", which was mostly used as a derogatory term for a negative thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
I.e. radical feminism says "There's a fundamental oppression of women by men baked into our society called patriarchy that *won't* be fixed just by achieving full liberalism or full Marxism And it needs to be 'rooted out', dismantled at the 'root'"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
"Cultural feminist" was a term for people who *sound like* radical feminists but don't actually follow the logic to the end Rather than saying "Somehow, some way, we've got to get at the root of this men vs. women thing and end it" they just go "No, that's impossible"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
"The world will always have a Men Team and a Women Team and our job is just to cheer on the Women Team" Janice Raymond's extremely pessimistic version of radical feminism honestly comes across as this (and her mentor Mary Daly is wildly unapologetically this)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
And honestly TERFism very frequently comes across as being stamped out of this mold, which is why you get the hilarious and creepy thing where they unknowingly round the horseshoe bend and start sounding just like Republicans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
Shit like "motherhood is the glory of women, motherhood is fundamentally sacred, fathers will never fill the role of a mother due to the biological fact of wombs creating life, we must never relinquish motherhood as central to the identity of women" The Pope could've said that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiniAndInsomnia and
And this stuff about "women's spaces" isn't *necessarily* this kind of shallow cultural feminism, no one on any side has actually said "gender abolition = remove all labels 'for men' and 'for women' from all things immediately" But wow does it get there fast when TERFs say it
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Any time you say "The POINT of having a prize for women is to have something a woman can ever possibly have a hope of winning, because otherwise men will always win everything" I mean this is almost the dictionary definition of the word "defeatist"
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