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2nd wave feminists must be turning in their self-knitted jumpers

...Posie Parker) is adored because she says what she wants to say and takes no prisoners. The fact that she's dropped all pretense at either feminism or gender critique is beside the point. The house is on fire, you can't quibble about these things, if you can get conservatives to help fight the...

...that I do, that I feel annoyed for, because hearing ‘Who cares about trans people?’ ‘Who cares about racism? Isn’t racism dead?’ ‘Feminism, who needs feminism?’ – hearing all of that rhetoric as a young person is tough...

Yeah, I take your point and as with all movements there was obviously crossover between socialist/Marxist feminisms and radical feminisms. Was being a bit glib which I probably shouldn't have been on this thread!

...experience of being an older woman who has had to navigate this shit all my life. Do I generally value women's contributions to threads on feminism more that men's? Well generally yes I do*. I find women have more personal experience and have considered the subject more, if that makes me...

So you have spent an hour or two reading an introductory book. Come back when you have finished it, considered it and your own behaviour, discussed it with your daughters and your male friends. Til then please do me the courtesy of shutting the fuck up.

Thanks edie I'm still going through and questioning my views on stuff encompassing feminism and womens rights that keep changing with life experience. I don't know if I'll be great at discussing, but I think I'm ok at listening when trying to work out an informed and fair opinion - and...

...to get this film made has been ongoing for a while. Have loved poly styrene and x-ray spex for decades.. This should probably be in a 'things that make you feel relevant' thread... Feminism, identity politics, anti-capitalist and consumer society critiques.. Up the punks I am a cliche 😀

THere were loads of feminism threads for a while For instance https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/feminism-and-a-world-designed-for-men.364389/

Lol - she may have been a trailblazing icon of feminism, but let's stop for a moment to consider her most important contribution to the world: being a mother :cool:

The splits that have occurred on here, at the Anarchist Book Fair, and elsewhere, surely show that this is not something that easily reduces to sides. But there is pull and push creating sides (at least in the eyes of some), for sure, and that certainly involves ideology. For some, anyone who...

Of course Pascoe has done it! She was great. Leather troos and a camo jacket.

Feminism started to lose coherence and validity (for me) not long after the Greenham Common years. By the time I did a degree at Sussex in the 90s, I admit to finding academic feminist writing especially unedifying, obtuse and suspiciously complex. The female fucking gaze and bizarre...

The 'survey' in the original BBC story formed part of a report in which the researcher quoted Janice Raymond's line that “All transsexuals rape women’s bodies by reducing the real female form to an artefact, appropriating this body for themselves”. So they aren't actually that fussy at the beeb.

...toxic masculinity, while many do not? Interesting you mention 'not talking over over people' - reminds me of the disscussion we had on the Feminism and the silencing of women discussion about how much men dominating meetings. How to men learn to behave like this? You seem to be diverting...

There's important stuff and dodgy stuff on both sides of the debate. There'd have to be some reciprocity and a mutual recognition that any boycott is less about the substantive arguments, and more about the fact that people can agree that these threads seem to do more harm than good (for now, at...

Sisters uncut are hardly an unproblematic organisation My own sympathies with gender critical feminism began when I watched a 29 year old fella physically assault a 60 year old woman. (After stalking them round london and proclaiming in social media their desire to ‘fuck up a terf). And then...

Obviously Nick Ferrari is a right wing shock-jock who's smart enough to see when his political enemies are all over the shop on an issue and he will exploit that.

It would be better if all these politicians making fools of themselves kept quiet then, and admitted they don't know that much about the subject, rather than making dogmatic statements about which it turns out they are uncertain.

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