So, I find this bit is key. The rad-fem argument that gender is the social construction isn’t wrong. That’s literally how they defined the word so as to use it in specific political ways 1/a couple
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Replying to @PsychScientists @djnavarro and
I think you are missing the ‘invalidating’ part here, and I feel you are going along with harmful rhetoric. If rad fem really believed that gender were a mere social construction they would have no notion if ‘real women’ to reserve for cis women.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @djnavarro and
That hardly follows; social constructions can be clearly defined and perfectly real I get the invalidation point; what I’m thinking is that there is more than one way to frame that experience and one of the rad fem critiques is that the current framing isn’t the best one
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Replying to @PsychScientists @IrisVanRooij and
That being said; I’m not a trans person nor am I trying to frame and verbalise my experience as one so I don’t have a clear sense of whether the gender framing is good or not. I will believe people with more skin in the game, obviously.
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Replying to @PsychScientists @IrisVanRooij and
What I’m now curious about, now I think I see some of the shape of the argument, is whether there’s a way to articulate the rad fem reframing in a way that people might try out to see if they’re right. I’ll admit they are not communicating past the obvious triggering language
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Replying to @djnavarro @IrisVanRooij and
You are bang on about the debates online. The gender critical pieces are all very confrontational; I’m *guessing* it’s because these people are used to having to fight to create and defend their spaces, but it comes off as ‘punching down’ in this context
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @PsychScientists and
Most TERFs are extremely privileged rich white women.
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Trans women on the other hand have a really low life expectancy because society murders them. Sometimes legally, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense …
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