As a heterosexual GC/Radical Feminist, how can I support the LGB community?

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[–]Smolders1Cock is god's greatest gift. 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

Radical feminism isn't friendly to males, like OPPRESSED_REPTILIAN said, it perpetuates the idea that anyone (in regards to the entire demographic) born with a penis is oppressive, when in reality, that's wildly inaccurate. I don't wanna sound offensive, but saying that "all people who have penises suck" is just... off to me.

Just be friendly lol.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

(Not directed at you, OP, I'm just heartened by this bit of the conversation since I never got to debrief about being seen as a man by radfems.) I was once accused of being a man for politely, with an appropriate reference, correcting another woman's really ignorant, false statement about female neurobiology / sexual response, because I didn't want anyone reading the thread to get bad information about her own body or feel shame because they had a different experience than this woman was claiming was even possible. Then I was banned. It was whacko. Never had anyone rage at me about my "male fantasies" before. Uptight doesn't even begin to cover it. I felt sorry for them. Not my crowd, apparently, because I don't hate everything.

[–]_d33n3r_[S] 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Thanks for your reply, this is part of the reason why I wanted to get active, it’s crazy to me that people calling themselves radfems would be so vicious to a gnc woman. Sorry for anything bad you’ve experienced

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Thank you, I really appreciate it (and I don't expect you to bear the burden of their mistakes simply because you use the same terms to describe yourself). It was just breathtaking because at the same time they were going on and on about speaking accurately about biology. The blind spot was big enough to drive a planet through.

I welcome your solidarity. If there are more like you, bring it on. :-)

[–]SavvyDiogenes 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I find this whole "brain sex" discussion wholly redundant - even if female and male brains are slightly different, do we even know how that influences behaviour? IF that influences behaviour? We can't figure out treating widespread mental illnesses and we're here talking about the brain sex gender woo woo feelings? We don't know nearly enough about the brain to come to conclusions on why brain sex differences would even be important, so what is even the point in discussing this? Humans really overestimate their knowledge lol

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Well, FWIW I was referring to the fun kind of sex. That was a terrible, no good, very bad thing to say something positive and science-backed about that didn't fit the narrative. Some radfems apparently don't really want to know how their bodies work—angrily don't want to know.

[–]SavvyDiogenes 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Well you mentioned neurobiology so I did think that that is what the conversation was about. Sorry if I was wrong?

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Neurobiology includes the entire nervous system. ;-) No worries!

[–]SavvyDiogenes 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I was aware of that - what I wasn't aware of, though, is that there are sex differences in neurobiology that aren't in the brain? I though that was the only area that had slight differences. Good to know, though.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not talking about brain things in the sense that you are. There's not really a way to steer what I said into that realm without the thread becoming nonsensical. :-) I am not talking about sex differences between male and female at all. You'll just have to take it on faith I suppose. I'm being polite by not getting more specific. Some people (I don't mean you) blow a gasket when certain aspects of sexuality are discussed, no matter how matter-of-fact and science-based one's corrections of their nonsense are.