I made a comment about critical support for radical feminists who are not terfs before, but I’ve since come to realize that radfem ideology really can’t be disentangled from transphobia.
My feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit.
#I’ve got a lot of feelings towards nonTERF radfems and I dont understand those feelings #just thought I’d share this perspective I’m really fucking unsure about radical feminism
#I think there are parts to pull from it #but when I’ve seen libfems make better arguments (and I am NOT a libfem) I can’t help but be like… what
Yeah definitely not here for the useless half-efforts of liberal feminism, but it’s more than a two-sided idea.
Libfems are obviously trapped in a hellscape of atomized individualism that makes victim blaming almost a core tenet. This is clearly not helpful and a co-option of revolutionary feminists in the past.
The problem I have with radical feminism (as opposed to feminists who are also radical) is that it specifically sees the primary oppression to be patriarchy. This is a step in the right direction (recognizing the institutional nature of oppression) but it leaves too much to be desired.
For instance, there’s no radical feminist framework that can explain White women oppressing Black men. As such it can lend itself to racist narratives about “Black on White” oppression that can be co-opted by the far right.
On the other (third?) hand there’s intersectional feminism. This is a framework that understands the interconnection of various oppressions and places none at the top. Instead it is argued that oppressions and intersections thereof operate differently in different spaces and on different people.
Black trans lesbians do not face the same kind of anti-blackness as cis straight black men. The anti-blackness they face is informed by them also being queer and women, which is why words like “misogynoir” and “transmisogyny” exist.
This is the problem I have with radical feminism, it isn’t intersectional. It doesn’t take these circumstances and intersections into account. So it can be racist and transphobic without contradicting itself.
So this isn’t to say “all radical feminists are racist and transphobic”, but that there’s nothing in their beliefs that would preclude that. So there’s a very weak ground within radical feminism to ideologically defend the aforementioned groups.
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