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[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This article is great. It shows clearly why politics should always be kept at arms length from matters of sexual orientation. It has it's clear strategic benefits oftentimes, but I'd be damned if some spicy straight activist told me how my attractions/crushes were just privileged choices and I was simply giving in to my political enemies by even having them. They could f*** right off to the moon.

And yeah, Julie Bindel is a tad misandrist, pretty ignorant of Homosexuality and didn't really acknowledge Bisexuality(even her own?). I read a pretty messed up joke she made about keeping males of all ages in camps. It was in bad taste and at best very tactless and unwise. I don't know if she changed much since then but yeah.

So... best not to hug any Ideology, including Radical Feminism- too closely for this reason. You may have some overlap(maybe even a lot) in intermediate goals, but the end goal is different and may be rather incompatible with the things Lesbians really need. A lot of radfems don't really understand same-sex attraction and so wouldn't properly allot for it in their manifestos.