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[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

yet they've given her a speaking position at their upcoming conference.

That Tweet got ratio-ed pretty hard, which is not surprising given your arguments and sources in this well-researched query. Can't dig into it as much as it deserves at the moment, but thank you for flagging this for us. Very good questions indeed.

A sampling for the archive (capturing whole tweet threads tends not to work but this gives you an idea): https://archive.md/If7rr

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Thank you for taking a look, and no problem, I'm glad you think so too. I'm surprised and relieved so many other people on this thread share my concerns; I tried to say something similar to this in a post months ago, and got a lot of pissed-off comments telling me I "didn't understand radical feminism" and that I must be a woman-hating gay man (LOL).

Some of the people calling out LGB Alliance on that thread might be TRAs, but regardless, I think it is right to call her out on this.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Sure looks that way.

that I must be a woman-hating gay man

I guess the accuse-you-of-being-a-man thing really is a thing. So weird. Did that backlash happen on our sub, or a different one?

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Ours. I can go dig up the post if you're curious.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I am actually, if it won't gross you out all over again to go find it. If it will, no need to poison your brain again.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Found it! Here ya go, enjoy...

A real winner. I appreciated the "laugh" reacts on all my comments, though, lol. Think I pissed off a couple of them.

That post is exactly why I said in my earlier comment that I am "surprised and relieved," I assumed I was going to get another shitshow like that thread.

edit: bonus fun comments:

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fun. What would we do without dogma? /s

I try not to stereotype people but the most dogmatic and vitriolic language I ever see used other than by TRAs is coming from radfems. So either it's a case of the loudest and most obnoxious making poor representatives of a group (same as what TRAs inflict on trans people who are just trying to live their lives and not bully anyone), or...there's a reason this is such a regular occurrence.

It comes across as a very only-have-a-hammer, everything-is-a-nail approach.