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[–]SickOfThisShitNow 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's really difficult. I was involved in the LGB community and activism there for a long time but obviously that's been completely taken over. I genuinely thought radical feminism was so wonderful and pro-lesbian at first look and it took a while for the scales to fall from my eyes - I think partly because I so wanted it and needed it to be something to replace the LGB community. How do we find each other even? I think on specific issues we can maybe co-operate with rad fems/political lesbians - in the same way some rad fems co-operate with conservatives on issues they agree on - but it does worry me that lesbians are leaving one problematic community with its own agenda that does not have our issues at heart and walking straight into another one. Maybe groups like the LGB Alliance can be part of the solution? Maybe we just have to build up communities from the ground up, get to know other lesbians by word of mouth and sussing each other out like lesbians in previous generations would have done?

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

I'm interested if you're willing to share — A lot of people talk about hitting peak trans or peak lib fem (a moment of falling out of a belief system you used to follow), what was your peak rad-fem moment(s) that made "the scales fall from your eyes"?

[–]WildwoodFlower 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can't speak for SickOfThisShitNow, but personally I have seen too many Trump supporters in radfem and gender critical groups. I have no way of knowing if these people are for real or if they are foreign trolls, so I just stay the hell away from them. Either way, I don't want to have anything to do with them.