Why I will eventually say, "Adios" to GC feminist activism...

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[–]BEB[S] 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I never thought that the fabulous, fierce women pushing back on gender ideology were naive or prone to fads, but the constant retweeting of neo-conservative propagandists Masih Alinejad, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bari Weiss, each softening us up for a US/Israel-pushed attack on Iran, or any other country that Israel wants out of the way, makes me rethink that assumption.

I get that very few lay people understand the nuances of global politics, whereas I spent years in the thick of it for my job.

I get that many if not most GC feminists are younger than I am, often considerably younger than I am, and do not remember all the other times the US (and other countries) have started a war under the partial justification that it would better the lot of the women of the country it was about to bomb to shreds (Afghanistan, Iraq, part of the propaganda before WW I...)

I understand that most GC feminists don't remember Iraq I, much less Vietnam. And most of you haven't been in a war, while I have, and the horrors of that, and other horrors meted out to women that I witnessed firsthand, have stayed with me to this day.

But can't these amazingly smart GC feminists figure out that the women of Iran have way bigger problems than being forced to wear fucking head scarves? US sanctions are crippling the lives, and often ending the lives, of ordinary Iranians. Females, as always, are disproportionately affected.

Why have so many GC women unquestioningly embraced these neo-conservative issues/ activists instead of lobbying for say, the young girls kept in cages in Thailand, only let out to have sex with disgusting European men?

Baby girls in Africa, raped because, in some places, sex with a virgin is thought to be a cure for AIDs?

There are so many women, and groups of women, around the world who face horrors daily who could use the help of smart, passionate women like us, but instead the GC movement seems to being hijacked by neo-conservatives and the US-Israel war machine. Who will use us, I guarantee.

It's really disappointing.

[–]TheOnyxGoddess 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I never thought that the fabulous, fierce women pushing back on gender ideology were naive or prone to fads

It's a mix, like any other movement. Though I honestly doubt majority of the gendercrotical population is here because they think it's trendy.

But can't these amazingly smart GC feminists figure out that the women of Iran have way bigger problems than being forced to wear fucking head scarves? US sanctions are crippling the lives, and often ending the lives, of ordinary Iranians. Females, as always, are disproportionately affected.

I honestly thought Gendercritical was specifically about the TRA movement, so it might not be that every gendercritical feminist has forgotten about the issues females in the third world face, it might be that it's just the scoping of the forums. Also, the new enemy that's closest to us in the first world has arrived as well, it decided to be "trans" and it's affecting the first world at a seemingly fast rate, so we're all instinctively concerned and unfortunately, we're forced to choose between focus on saving ourselves first or the people in the third world (just explaining the psychology).