Study on The Psychology of Gender Critical Feminism

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[–]uwushallnotpass 32 insightful - 1 fun32 insightful - 0 fun33 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There are three axes that this survey is apparently trying to measure: (i) fascist attitudes ("What this country needs is a stiff dose of law and order"), (ii) racism (a whole page with stereotypical assertions of racists) and (iii) conspiracy theories ("Reporters, scientists, and government officials are involved in a conspiracy to cover up important information about the trans agenda").

The other questions are mostly completely impossible to answer, along the lines of "have you stopped beating your wife": "God made two sexes and two sexes only." - I can't answer yes, because I don't believe in god. I can't answer no, because there are clearly only two sexes. "It is morally wrong for a woman to present herself as a man in public." - women can wear whatever they like, but that doesn't mean they look like men, because almost none of them do. "Men who act like women should be ashamed of themselves." - what does it mean to "act like a woman"? What does this mean? "Individuals should be allowed to express their gender freely." - again, what on earth does this mean? Men and women can wear whatever they like, but if I agree that they're "expressing their gender" then this apparently means I agree with the idea that gender is a real thing that can be expressed?

There are lots of these very manipulative questions, which are clearly not designed to find out about the real attitudes of GC feminists. The other massive problem is that this survey seems to be open to everyone on the internet, so the results are not going to be meaningful in any way. At first I thought this was low-effort trolling, but someone has clearly gone to a lot of trouble to set this up, so I'm not sure what this is all about.

[–]luckystar 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah these questions are odd, I think the OP has radfems mixed up with like... conservative Bible thumpers.
The God question annoyed me too lol.

What I found especially funny is all the questions being like "Would it make you ANGRY and VIOLENT if a man were to wear a dress?". Like (A) No we think that is fine that is literally the entire point; (B) show me even one case of a radical feminist being violent to anyone, trans or otherwise.

[–]SameOldBS 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is the survey person American? I've had encounters with US peeps on Twitter who seem completely unable to understand that most British GC peeps have no connection to the religious right as we don't really have a powerful religious right lobby in the UK. They insist that we are part of that lobby anyway. It's utterly bizarre, as if they can't imagine the whole world isn't a reflection of US society.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's utterly bizarre, as if they can't imagine the whole world isn't a reflection of US society.

Another downside of this sort of simplistic pigeon-holing is that it's giving many people in the UK the mistaken impression that the religious right in the US is "a reflection of US society" as a whole. Which it isn't. I'm from the US, but I relate much more to the GC UK women on mumsnet, Twitter and other platforms than I do to US Bible-thumpers. Even the US conservatives and Republicans I know tend to be secular, tolerant of different sexualities, in favor of women's rights and pretty neutral on abortion - they're nothing like the dogmatic, homophobic religious reactionaries epitomized by organizations like Westboro and many evangelical sects and the most traditional Mormons.

I despair when I read threads on Mumsnet AIBU that portray all/most Americans as right-wing religious nuts.