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Can we stop using the term "TERF"? It doesn't mean anything at this point. The transphobic assholes on X certainly aren't radical feminists.
We need to make FARTs - Feminism Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes - stick instead
Excellent
OMG I have to use that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2I08cQhis
I'd like to call em that, but this has changed my mind.
i prefer to call them divorced losers whose children hate them
What is a TERF?
Trans Excluding Radical Feminist. It's a rabbit hole and it's not much fun past the first 100 meters.
the tl;dr is that they are not really feminists, and they use feminist-sounding rhetoric to justify anti-trans views, they're basically just anti-trans activists.
For more rabbit-hole, ContraPoints has a video about "Gender Criticals" (synonymous with TERF): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pTPuoGjQsI
Her video on JK Rowling would be a good follow-up.
A "feminist" that claims to support gender equality, but thinks trans folk should diaf.
The issue with the term is that radical feminism is transphobic by definition so why specify "trans exclusionary"
Excluding trans folk is what makes these specific feminists radical. Their beliefs, otherwise, are fairly mainstream feminist.
The core idea of radical feminism is that humanity is divided into two groups - male (ontologically evil, sexual predators from birth) and female (weak, incapable of harm, in need of protecting) while some radical feminists define these groups as being based in assigned sex, and others define them by gender identity, it's the ideology as a whole that is transphobic, and harmful in many other ways It is far from typical feminist beliefs. Thty advocate for things such as female seperatism, and killing all those they consider men or culling them to a small population to be kept only for breeding.