• Diplomjodler
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    181 day ago

    Can we stop using the term “TERF”? It doesn’t mean anything at this point. The transphobic assholes on X certainly aren’t radical feminists.

    • 3 dogs in a trenchcoat
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      18 hours ago

      The issue with the term is that radical feminism is transphobic by definition so why specify “trans exclusionary”

      • @BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        Excluding trans folk is what makes these specific feminists radical. Their beliefs, otherwise, are fairly mainstream feminist.

        • 3 dogs in a trenchcoat
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          12 hours ago

          The core idea of radical feminism is that humanity is divided into two groups - male (ontologically evil, sexual predators from birth) and female (weak, incapable of harm, in need of protecting) while some radical feminists define these groups as being based in assigned sex, and others define them by gender identity, it’s the ideology as a whole that is transphobic, and harmful in many other ways It is far from typical feminist beliefs. Thty advocate for things such as female seperatism, and killing all those they consider men or culling them to a small population to be kept only for breeding.