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Radfem ♀ | Marxist ☭
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ig this my digital diary now

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@glitteryfem Being nonbinary isn't incompatible with radical feminism. challenging fixed gender categories and roles contribute to destabilizing gender which is one of our goals as radfems.

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There is no gain in demonizing or excluding trans people when there are more urgent material and political struggles against patriarchy.

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Radfems have always criticized gender ideology and advocated for gender abolition, so this disagreement isn't new. But I don't see how targeting a marginalized group that doesn't constitute the structural power behind women's oppression advances the movement.

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@GrabaTurk @KnightlySua Why is “equality” a better catch than “women’s liberation”? Men already hold the dominant position under patriarchy while women remain oppressed. Why soften a political movement meant to challenge that system? Feminism isn't a marketing campaign it should be uncomfortable.

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@GrabaTurk @KnightlySua Why is “equality” a better catch than “women’s liberation”? Men already hold the dominant position under patriarchy while women remain oppressed. Why soften a political movement meant to challenge that system? Feminism isn't a marketing campaign it should be uncomfortable.

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changing institutions, relationships, cultural norms, and material conditions not just organizing those most directly oppressed by it. If someone is willing to contribute to that project, excluding them doesn't automatically advance it; it can actually slow it down.

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Genuine question to my fellow radical feminists: how is excluding anyone from feminism productive for the movement?

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I believe in a sex-based analysis of women's oppression, but I don't see why excluding people based on identity is necessary for dismantling patriarchy.Patriarchy is a social system, so dismantling it requires

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@KnightlySua I'm not saying equality isn't part of feminism. I'm distinguishing means from ends: feminism's political project is dismantling patriarchy and women's subordination. Equality becomes possible through liberation. Framing feminism as "equality" diverts attention from the main goal.

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@cutesy_kuromiii Feminism isnt merely an ideology in the abstract. It's a political movement against patriarchy and it's not simply about achieving equality u cant achieve genuine equality while leaving a hierarchical, oppressive system intact.

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Women aren't completely determined by their circumstances but neither are they freely floating subjects who can simply choose their way out of them.

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I agree with almost everything Beauvoir argues in The Second Sex but I have one qualification regarding the idea of transcendence
I don't think transcendence should be understood primarily as a matter of individual choice.

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Liberation therefore requires both:
the transformation of consciousness and the transformation of the material conditions that make meaningful agency possible.

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I hate that we treat every community as something monolithic as if every person within that community has the same values and behaves the same way