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[–]JustWhy[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I love your story. When would you say there was this rise of "male feminists" that you are describing, and the sex work "empowerment"? I'm trying to pin down when exactly when the mainstream feminist narrative started to change like this. I was never as deep into feminism until the last 2-3 years when I finally snapped thanks to TRAs.

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I would say around 2007-2010. I can't recall very well the dates, I feel that everything changed so fast around this time. Transgenderism was also getting less obscure during that time, at least around where I live, people knew what transgender was, though here it was 'transexual', then later it changed to transgender, always following english speaking countries change of terms.

Had my male feminist friend lecture me about not using the term 'ftm' anymore cus the acceptable now was 'trans man'. 'ftm' was out of date.. all that while I identified as trans lmao, blink-and-you-miss-it.

After that, feminism was all about men, sex positiveness and LGBT also changed, becoming LGBTTT (transexuals, transvestites and transgender.. as if they're not the exact same thing) then LGBTI then LGBTQIA+ and I don't understand the addition of IA to this day but what bugs me out the most is the Q which makes no sense in my native language (portuguese) and has no history here.

Around 2014-2016 (I guess?) the only changes I saw my friend be opposed was the people (americans I think?) claiming the word homosexual was bad. I don't know how loaded that word is in english speaking countries, but here is best word to address same sex attracted people, it is polite even; and the 'genital preferences are transphobic' instance, since he was a gay man.

(Sorry if thats way too long, I'm remembering a lot of stuff now and holy cow, I don't miss that time)