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they-called-me-terfy · 1 year

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man in dress gets triggered by actual women and decides to drink and drive about it

#terf #terfs #peak trans #trans receipts #terfs touch #radblr #trans bullshit #receipts #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminists #radical feminists interact #radical feminists touch #terfs interact #trans misogyny #trans cringe #trans nonsense

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drbased · 8 months

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A quick bit of advice

This is what we call 'controlling the conversation'.

(Please watch the video, it's only 10 minutes long and if more people get this concept I don't have to keep pointing these things out)

This person has skillfully shifted the discussion away from misogyny into picking apart whether or not wasps are bees. They've made some hilariously bad factual innacuracies, and now, guess what, radfems are now talking about whether of not wasps are bees.

Let me quote from the video:

What kind of debate is this, even? There's not a single thing your opposition has said that isn't provable false or irrelevant and they change the subject every 30 seconds.

Every bad argument they use a subtle attempt to change the subject. Bad arguments are not a bug, they're a feature.

The original post is about misogyny. It uses a metaphor to depict misogyny, to help it be made understandable. Nitpicking the metaphor achieves two things: it means they don't have to argue on the thorny issue of demonstrable misogyny, and it also signals to the imagined audience that the initial comment about misogyny is already bunk. What those who want to control the conversation do is they respond with the next argument along assuming their position is already correct.

Feminist: This is how misogyny operates within trans activism TRA: Trans women can't be misogynistic because trans women are women ... and your metaphor doesn't work because wasps are bees

So radfems are now talking about wasps not being bees. It's so easy to do, right? The left wing love a good language and factual take-down; it's so tempting to do, and so easy to do, and we get to look smarter than them - maybe we could even change some minds. It all feels like a good time.

And look, this is how OP then responds.

Notice how mcironiccringename over here only now has to talk about the 'facts' about wasps and bees. They never have to engage with the original point misogyny. Conversation controlled, damage controlled, time wasted.

#radical feminism #radical feminists interact #radical feminists please interact

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iaskfornothingbutdivine · 7 months

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there's this episode from my childhood that i think about once in a while

i've been playing basketball from 8 to 14 years old. i really loved it. i lived it. all my friends were also my teammates. i dreamed about becoming a professional sportswoman, about playing in wnba when i grow up. and i was pretty good at it too! i won't even hesitate to say that i was one of the best players in our team.

but then the puberty hit. the hair started growing on my armpits and my legs. and i think i didn't even notice at first how it affected me as a player.

the thing is, when you throw the ball into the basket you need to make sure that your arm is pointing straight up and that you hold it like this for some time even after the throw is done. my technique started worsening as i was unconsciously pulling down my hand too soon in an attempt not to reveal my armpits. when throwing, my arm looked more like a question mark when it should've been be all straightened. i started missing the basket all the time. i couldn't score from the easiest positions. our coach commented on that over and over again but i just knew i couldn't do it. i could not reveal my armpits.

mind you, it was an all girls team and our couch was female but i still felt really isolated in my anxiety. eventually, my mother approached me and told me that the coach talked to her about being concerned with all this. that she supposed it had to do with my armpit hair so maybe my mother should consider shaving it with me. and so my mother offered me to shave, to which i happily agreed.

after that, my technique improved almost immediately. i started scoring and became one of the best players again. everything came back to normal.

i left basketball after some time due to other reasons but this episode still strikes me sometimes. how i was ready to give up on my greatest passion of the time due to shame and anxiety i felt because of my armpit hair. how there was no better communication with my coach, my mother or even my fellow teammates many of whom were also going through puberty then. how the only solution was shaving.

i'm so frustrated every time i think about this.

#english is not my native language so i'm sorry for any mistakes or poor choice of words #mine #misogyny #anti shaving #radfem #radblr #radical feminist #radical feminism #radical feminist community #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists do touch #radical feminists interact #radical feminists please interact #radical feminists please touch #radical feminists touch #feminism #feminist

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feliaes · 3 months

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men be like "if women are really that intelligent, why are all major discoveries made by men? 🤓" as if they didn’t quite literally burn women alive if they were smart back in the day

#radblr #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do touch #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #terfblr

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thefemalejoker42069 · 7 months

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you know what? normalize ruthlessly mocking men’s interests completely unprovoked the same way they’ve spent years mocking pumpkin spice lattes and pop music and animal crossing and the sims and every other completely harmless thing women often enjoy. I Love Revenge

#this was inspired by a tiktok with millions of likes of a man making fun of women for liking the sims #they think every interest we have is intellectually inferior and thus worthy of never ending scorn #radblr #radical feminism #radical feminists please touch #radical feminists do interact

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they-called-me-terfy · 2 years

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drbased · 1 month

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Women, we need to come up with a term to describe the kind of behaviour that trans women, drag queens etc. do where they dress up as us and mock us. Calling it 'womanface' is too appropriative of blackface, calling it 'cultural appropriation' would ironically fit better with the genderist view of gender as cultural, but once again it would be appropriative. But if we can base our term on existing leftist vocabulary then it would aid general understanding and make it punchier. Does anyone better than me have any ideas?

#my writing #radical feminists interact #radical feminists please interact #radical feminists do interact #gender critical

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recycled-cotton-knit · 28 days

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I think more people on radblr should be talking about sweatshops, especially in the garment industry.

• Around 80% of sweatshop workers are women. Some employers force them to take birth control and pregnancy tests to avoid having to pay for maternity leave. Pregnant women are routinely denied sick leave to visit doctors, terminated from their contracts early, or left without any maternity leave when their short-term contracts are not renewed.

• Women are more likely than men to experience minimum wage violations. According to one study, "30 percent of the women workers in our sample experienced minimum wage violations, compared to 20 percent of the men". [Source: https://www.nelp.org/publication/broken-laws-unprotected-workers-violations-of-employment-and-labor-laws-in-americas-cities/ ]

• Indonesian women employees report that “girls in the factory are harassed by male managers. They come on to the girls, call them into their offices, whisper into their ears, touch them, bribe them with money and threaten them with firing if they don’t have sex with them.” [source: cleanclothes.org]

• "Toilet breaks are monitored, and some workers said they were flat out denied them, even when sick. The same goes for water and lunch breaks, both necessary to stay healthy when working 12+ hour days in a stuffy, overcrowded factory." 20% of women in sweatshops report experiencing sexual violence. [https://iwda.org.au/three-ways-garment-factories-violate-the-rights-of-women-and-how-its-allowed-to-happen/ ]

It's easy not to support this kind of abuse. Do not buy clothes first-hand. Only buy from thrift shops and second-hand apps, or find ethical brands and investigate where and how they make their clothing (hint: if a t-shirt costs $3, it's not ethical). Patch your old clothes. Consider learning basic sewing (it's not as difficult as it seems!)

I don't care how cheap Shein and Temu are. I don't care how much you think you need that specific Zara coat. Buying clothes directly harms women and avoiding it is a very easy way to help.

#radblr #radical feminist safe #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #rec #radical feminists do touch

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redberryterf · 2 months

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"sex work is work" ok then go give a blow job to your uncle to earn some extra cash, jonathan

#radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #terfsafe #terfblr #feminism #terf #i stand with jk rowling #adult human female #radblr #gender critical #antiporn #anti prostitution #men

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formywriyinglalala · 1 month

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this genuinely breaks my heart

#it makes me so angry that the comments on the vid are all “dont blame Islam”#and “its a lot of women’s choice…!”#to see the happiness in their eyes before and then to see how the eyes THE WINDOW TO THE SOUL are completely covered is devastating #it’s not a fucking choice if everyone is telling you this is the only way you can be a pious woman #or if you’re going to be killed otherwise #radblr #rad fem #radical feminists please touch #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #radical feminst #anti religion #anti islam #radical feminist safe #radical feminists please interact #radical feminists do touch

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