How are feminists okay with this?

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[–]SharpTomorrow 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"feminism" has become a weasel word. There is no feminism if men can be women and and womanhood is considered "a feeling". Feminism has been co-opted by people who have an agenda, feminists didn't push back, the movement is now rotten to the core. unfortunately feminists themselves are to blame, because they pushed intersectionality which is divisive by nature. As soon as you reason about "subcategories" of women, this is what happen, you are building a hierarchy in your own struggle. It was a terrible mistake, no matter how well intended intersectionality was.

So your friend has been misled as to what feminism is at first place.

Men are not women and feminism was never designed for transsexuals. Gender stereotypes need to be fought, not normalized and enforced through the idea of "gender".

[–]Radish 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Absolutely. I stopped calling myself a feminist because nobody has any idea what that means any more. I hear people who I otherwise highly respect saying things like "oppression of femme-identified people"

I don't believe feminists are to blame, though. I don't believe feminists are really behind a movement that disguises itself as progressive but is characterized by telling women to shut up and that the movement knows what women are like better than women do. That sounds like regressive malespeak to me.

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

. I stopped calling myself a feminist

I understand the struggle but I think that's the opposite of what we should be doing. Imo we need to do our best to reclaim the word. I like to describe myself "like a more old school, second wave feminist". Saying the ideas we support like destroying gender roles are more than a century old helps to defend them.

I do the same with leftism btw. I'm a pro union, pro workers right, anti-religion leftist, not a pro TRAs bullshit liberal.