GenderCritical

Agreed. I'd been on r/gendercritical since almost its inception (lurked from day one) and been involved in radfem communities since 15-20 years ago even though at the time I was only about 70% on the same page. Now I am about 95% on the same page and yet a bulk of vocal posters there would consider me rightwing even though I support socialized healthcare amongst other essential services, am an atheist sex-nonconforming disabled lesbian against porn and prostitution and prescriptive sex roles generally, am ardently pro-choice (although since I do think is reasonable to restrict 3rd trimester abortions without medical reasons, because as rare as that is, law should account for edge cases and people saying "it literally NEVER happens but it's also evil to ban it" sound like TRAs even though female sociopathy is far less common of course than male perversion).

But I dare say I don't know which would be the lesser evil in the long run or that people voting for Trump were not all motivated by misogyny, racism, and stupidity (even though these certainly played a part), but while I didn't vote him in, my life was better under Trump for the gender reason alone and likely will be again, so I can see how others who are similarly positioned would be motivated by that, and that is enough to brand me as surely a Trump supporter.

Which is fine, I don't care that some misunderstand where I'm coming from. I don't understand why anyone cares whether they are considered a true feminist, a true lefty, a real man, a real Star Trek fan, whatever. None of that is important to my self- concept, only that I continually reevaluate my ethical stances for internal logical consistency and external correspondence with objective reality, and how my actions stack up against those.

So I don't understand self-censoring for the sake of avoiding arguments (as opposed to needing to put food on the table or stay out of jail) but of course we came from communities where this was the norm, only I've been out of that since about two weeks after getting in an echo chamber 20 years ago, refused to edit my thoughts about the gender delusion. I can't fathom why some say they would prefer an echo chamber as if it is truly inevitable, which is such an anti- intellectual stance, particularly when saying it's difficult to stomach seeing an article criticizing where the Dems went wrong. Isn't that essentially the purpose of our gendercritical fora, just more general to the parties of other countries that support this quasireligion?

How can we reform the leftwing parties if we don't hold their feet to the fire? One reason I said Trump winning might be the lesser evil is that I thought it might be the only thing that would push the party leadership to begin to distance themselves from this weight around the neck and work for the people again. The longer they don't reform on gender crap, the longer we are without a viable left. If I really wanted a rightwing government, I would encourage the Dems to stay the course. Why do you think the Republicans waited so long to use this in presidential attack ads when there was so much crazy out there already, including the photo of Ludwig towering over the women's basketball team? Think Trump's advisors just learned about how deep the rabbit hole goes? Think again. It's been clear since their odd silence of 2020 that they were sitting on this, letting it truly blow up so they could nuke the Dems in 2024. I also feared that others would be correct in the prediction that a Trump win would result in the Democrats further digging in heels.

I don't care what others would label me as. I would be happy to engage them in discussion and learn more of their perspectives to see other sides, but this is most productive when they are also open to seeing my perspectives in three dimensions, not just as radfem-or-not, left-or-not, etc.