Radical feminism has a humanity problem

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[–]censorshipment 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not reading all of that trash. 😒 just let go of men.

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

I think where we go wrong is in taking “the personal is political” mantra too literally. Theory is not meant to be applied directly to life — to indviduals. It is a way to analyze the world around you, systems, practices, patterns, and so on and so forth. Theory is just ideas, at the end of the day, and while it can help us understand certain phenomena, it should not be treated as a rule book, in terms of how we approach every person, situation, or relationship. Yet many radical feminists have done just that.

"the personal is political", as it emerged in (often Maoist or otherwise Marxist) radical feminism in the 1970s, contributed to the origin of identity politics and cancel culture as we know it today. So much of contemporary radlib/neolib discourse, which divides and segments us into helpless identity groups incapable of solidarity, is really a co-opting and perversion of prior discourses with more noble and social intentions.

[–]Camberian 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Great article. It tables the exact problems I have with radical feminism. Well written.

[–]NeedMoreCoffee 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree. If you dismiss other women for being heterosexual, wanting to be a stay at home mother of 5 or give them shit because they like purple hair and shaved armpits, you are not as team woman as you think you are.

It's one thing to think about and discuss those things, it's another to put down women who don't follow dogma's they think are mandatory.

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

Oh Meghan Murphy SHUT UP ALREADY, stop trying to take away the hard edges and the boundaries. I think she's constructed a straw woman of radical feminism.

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

This may be something particular to young women, new to radical feminism (and very excited about the discovery), and very online.

It's always been like this. Radical feminism doesn't serve the needs of the vast majority of women and dismisses them as inferior. Radical feminists were right about transsexuals because they criticize literally everything men do, and transwomen are men.

What have radical feminists accomplished in the past ten years?