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In reply to the discussion: What are your thoughts on "trans-exclusionary" radical feminism? [View all]bemildred
(90,061 posts)13. Well they are losing that argument, and I don't have to do what they say either.
All movements have their purists, their extremist loons and utopians.
One thing I like about the internet is that it is just FULL of people who claim to be the opposite of what they obviously are, and claim to be doing the opposite of what they are obviously doing, so it's the perfect place for people to say things they don't mean.
And I think it is wrong to try to shut people up because they are not being reasonable at the moment, as long as they don't start acting out or making threats.
I've read some feminist authors, and I always find them illuminating even though some of them are a lot more reasonable then others,
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Well they are losing that argument, and I don't have to do what they say either.
bemildred
Sep 2015
#13
your conflation of anti-pornography activism with opposition to transgender rights is sad ploy
zazen
Sep 2015
#20
I am sick of waking up each morning in a world where people 'on my side' make exploitative use of
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2015
#26