DiscussionBeing associated with radical feminism is dragging this movement down.

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[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Where are you seeing these GC and radfem bigots?

I've lurked on GC spaces for years and can count how many bigoted comments I've seen, there were that few.

I get a sense there's a lot of gaslighting going on in this thread...

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I saw a few of them over on reddit when the numbers were starting to grow. There would be a handful of people who would stir. E.g. calling trans people (as a group) narcissists, fetishists... often with the effect of slandering them as opposed to pointing out genuine criticisms of the community. A lot of inflammatory language that is designed to get people pissed off. That said, the saiddit has been a lot better. I suspect because it's smaller there is less to gain for someone who likes to stir people up.

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

OK, now I understand where you're coming from and thank you for explaining!

For myself, I wouldn't call the words "narcissists" and "fetishists" bigoted: I would call them descriptive.

In my experience, women are trained from birth, in every culture I've encountered and I've traveled a lot, to never vent their anger.

So I myself am totally fine with women on a feminist sub venting their anger at men who are narcissists and fetishists (transgender activists include a staggering amount of both) taking a sledgehammer to women's rights, colonizing women's safe spaces, appropriating women's oppression and triggering women's innate PTSD from having been the victim of male violence and sexual harassment from the time they can remember.

I think it's healthy and given that the GC subs are meant to be one of the few spaces women can express themselves freely, I don't think the women on there should have to rein themselves in for fear of offending others.

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

OK, now I understand where you're coming from and thank you for explaining!

For myself, I wouldn't call the words "narcissists" and "fetishists" bigoted: I would call them descriptive.

In my experience, women are trained from birth, in every culture I've encountered and I've traveled a lot, to never vent their anger.

So I myself am totally fine with women on a feminist sub venting their anger at men who are narcissists and fetishists (transgender activists include a staggering amount of both) taking a sledgehammer to women's rights, colonizing women's safe spaces, appropriating women's oppression and triggering women's innate PTSD from having been the victim of male violence and sexual harassment from the time they can remember.

I think it's healthy and given that the GC subs are meant to be one of the few spaces women can express themselves freely, I don't think the women on there should have to rein themselves in for fear of offending others.