communistroader:

closet-keys:

Sometimes I’ll find terfs in my notes that reblog shit I wrote and add or tag “op is so close, so much of this is radical feminism” and it’s like yes, it’s radical feminism without violent transmisogyny. Maybe you should fucking try it.

I know y’all have been lied to by reactionaries insisting it’s impossible to simultaneously be radical and love & listen to trans women, but your ideology is actually the one incompatible with revolutionary thought. That fact that y’all keep advocating for the same goals as fascists might be a fucking clue.

It reminds me of something said in that incomplete autobiography “I Belong to the Working Class” my grandpa sent me about the Jewish communist in the early US labor movements. She spoke about how scary it was when various groups of leftists would drift straight into fascism once they took to anti-Semitic ideology. She quoted “Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.”

And honestly transmisogyny is the radical feminism of fools. Y’all think you’ve found the missing piece that none of the other radicals grasp but really what you’ve found is fascist conspiracy theories.

Sometimes I’ll find terfs in my notes that reblog shit I wrote and add or tag “op is so close, so much of this is radical feminism” and it’s like yes, it’s radical feminism without violent transmisogyny.

You act confident in your ability to refute these people, but you don’t know what they believe because you haven’t really listened to them at all. When they say ‘radical feminism’, they’re describing a theory that aims at the root of male supremacy, right? We all get that. But what’s the root? Have you a clue?

Every radical feminist, and I do mean every, believes the root of male supremacy is men’s exploitation of women’s reproductive capacity. They know that humanity is objectively differentiated into two sex classes, male and female. The former oppresses the latter because they can give birth. They believe womanhood is defined by membership in the female sex class. ‘Gender’ to a radical feminist refers to the social practices which enforce male dominance and female subservience.

That is radical feminism. Remove that core, and it’s not radical feminism, it’s something else. There is no ‘combining’ this with trans ideology. For one, radical feminism necessarily concludes that ‘transwomen’ share in the spoils of male supremacy. They are male, and enjoy the advantages of greater average size and strength. They often father children, and show the same likelihood of rape as other groups of men. For two, radical feminists reject the logic behind transgenderists’ claims. They don’t accept the idea that womanhood is a feeling you can discover in yourself, or a circular label you can apply to yourself at will. That’s not even addressing masculine socialisation, a core piece of radical analysis, which I’m sure you disregard because it ‘misgenders’ transwomen.

I know y’all have been lied to by reactionaries insisting it’s impossible to simultaneously be radical and love & listen to trans women

I just don’t care about these men. I can’t be arsed to prostrate myself and kiss their feet all day long, as you’re doing.

So your main premise, that radical feminism can be reconciled with transgenderism, has been debunked. The rest of your post goes on to accuse radical feminists of aligning with fascists on everything, and comparing ‘transmisogyny’ (TRA-speak for misandry) to antisemitism. That’s laughable. But I’ve already shown you don’t know what you’re talking about so I’ll stop here.