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[–]materialrealityplz 41 insightful - 3 fun41 insightful - 2 fun42 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Most people in radfem groups aren't even radical feminists, they just found their way there because of being gender critical, because of reaching peak trans.

Most things discussed in those circles are male violence and sexual abuse, exploitation, objectification, etc. No one is really talking about about any actual concrete plans to bring down the patriarchy or end capitalism or whatever. They are just women fed up with the treatment they have received at the hands of men in their lives. Most other feminist groups center men - transwomen, or are pro-prostitution and pro-porn, etc, so women find their way to radfem forums. Radfem circles really aren't that radical.

[–]millicentfawcett 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes this is my experience. I call myself radfem sometimes but mainly to differentiate from libfem politics, I'm hardly a separatist type - I have a husband and several male children. I've been around radfem circles online and in real life for a few years now and I've met very few women I would describe as hardcore man-haters. As the poster above says it's mostly just a bunch of pissed off women with a variety of views on how to deal with it. People get too hung up on the word radical IMO which essentially means root - as in the root of our oppression is female biology. It's not meant as some kind of anarchist symbolism.