Yeah, I'm critical of gender. Critical of it being much more than a totalizing social construct that ought be conscientiously modified to reproduce greater social equality. That's what they mean, right?
Right?
:trans-uno:
no, they mean they're "critical" of gender in that they've politically fetishized it and need to reify and preserve it at any cost or else society will COLLAPSE.
They’ll say that because they’ll lose friendships and some family members will be disgusted with them
:yes-chad: On a related note, my baseball bat saw this hashtag and is 'trying' to come out of my closet
Their boomer parents on the couch in the living room while these people are explaining to them wtf "gender critical" is: :jesse-wtf:
I stumbled into an FDS post on :reddit-logo: the other day and saw one comment talking about how "the only real way is radical, intersectional feminism" with no inbetweens
And the comment above it was bemoaning the deplatforming of gender critical subs
I know these people are just TERF's, but I always assumed actual gender abolitionists were good. Until I saw the dysphoria megadoc/website and they mentioned gender abolitionists as being anti-trans as well, and now I'm confused
Dworkin-style abolitionists are good (well, she was a bit SWERFy which is cringe, though again not as much as some think). The TERFs have spent a lot of energy trying to co-opt people like her and LeGuin in from their graves even though they both were beating down proto-TERF rhetoric hardcore as early as the 1970s.
Sometimes I'm still confused because Dworkin is popular, like you've said here is generally good, but when I mention the problems with sex (which she's talked about) everyone here just :jesse-wtf:
