:river_fon: tbh

I am not going to directly criticise the person in the talk or the people sharing it, because otherwise there are lessons in it to share, and the person clearly gets enough hate as-is and clearly is well-meaning

but I'm sick and tired of people in 2026 still saying shit like "female is a clinical term" or "people care about my genitals" as if this is how misogyny works

recently saw a post saying that TERFs are fascists, not feminists, and I honestly I strongly disagree

sure, if you use a reasonable definition of Actual Feminism, you're right, these are fascists, not feminists. but that also entirely defeats the point

the point is that radical feminists actually do think they're helping women. the worst of them may just be overt fascists at this point, but radical feminist ideology infects a lot of normal cis women who simply don't realise what they're doing

the point is that radical feminism gives easy answers to problems even if they are incorrect, at the expense of our trans and sex-worker comrades, and also our male comrades. it's much easier to say that men are rude to you because of your vagina and not because gender is more complicated than that and genitals are just one small part of that

it's much easier to say "female is a clinical term" than to acknowledge the linguistic tendencies of people specifically speaking English to use adjectives as nouns to demean people. "blacks," for example, is demeaning and clinical, but "Black" is still a valid adjective. it's harder to talk about the nuance of how "female colleagues" is more demeaning than "colleagues" (genderless) and this doesn't mean we need to start saying "woman scientists" even though "man scientists" is seen as nonsense

the point here is that most of radical feminism is the same bullshit liberal shit we've grown to hate: coming up with simple answers to complex problems which end up making things worse instead of helping. and the correct answer is to inject nuance rather than discard it