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In reply to the discussion: Post removed [View all]Monk06
(7,675 posts)at hand is what Germaine Greer has said and it is a political view that is exclusive not inclusive in an important way.
What she is saying is the that Feminism is the exclusive province of women and that men have no place in setting the terms of feminist debate. She excludes trans persons as men who are not genetically female as part of a Feminist political constituency regardless of their professed feelings and any surgical alterations or hormonal therapy they undergo.
Excluding men from discussion of women's issues is a trop of first wave feminism. It is unfortunate for men who are sympathetic to the Feminist movement but that's what evolved out of the debates in the 70s and 80s and formed the ideas of Adrian Piper and Griselda Pollock.
In the eighties Andrea Dworkin pushed that view to the point of a radical sexual pessimism which was a dead end.
In response modern identity politics evolved from Gay rights to LGBT rights to LGBTTQQIAAP rights. It is unclear, in a political context, how useful or even coprehensible this inflation in terminology is outside of Cultural Studies departments in a small number of Universities.
It seems to be evolving into an esoteric micro culture with no wider purchase on the public imagination