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[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Where did all the radfems go?

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

Good question.

I think in the UK there are still some fierce sisters - there's a contingent of them who seem to consider themselves very Left, who constantly take US feminists to task for "allying" with the Right.

These UK feminists' notion of "allying" seems to mean US feminists teaming with conservatives only on issues of concern, such as the transitioning of minors, and saving women's sports & spaces.

Oddly enough, some of those UK uber-Lefty, Marxist-type feminists use preferred pronouns and are willing to compromise more on gender identity policies than the US feminists who the UK feminists claim are "allying" with the Right. Go figure.

I remember r/GenderCritical being way more rad fem than s/GenderCritical is now. s/GenderCritical is a very tolerant space in which posters often express conservative political viewpoints. TBH, I prefer s/GenderCritical to r/GenderCritical because I felt the latter was sometimes too dogmatic.

I think that the moderators on Ovarit are more rad fem and more hard-assed, but even on Ovarit there seems to be posters who are not very Left, or Left at all.

So yeah, I'm sure that there are rad fems out there still hard-lining, but I think that the battle against the gender ideologists to retain just basic human and civil rights for women has kind of made many rad fems focus on the immediate danger and if/when that is over, maybe they'll get back to Marx and striking the roots of patriarchy.