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[–]hmmdmm 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The risk of asking a question about TERFs is that they'll mischaracterize us as nutcases who call for violence against trans people, whereas in reality a lot of just want to keep women's spaces for cis-women. That might completely shut people down from looking us up.

[–]lefterfield 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not necessarily. A lot of people are still going to want to see just how awful those TERFs are. Besides, if they do mischaracterize us, she can keep asking questions to force a contradiction. "But why do they believe X?" "What do they think gender means?" TRAs always contradict themselves when they try to answer these questions. They can't help it, their entire ideology is contradictory.