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In reply to the discussion: RadFeminists are making it difficult for the Democratic party to fight the GOP's attack on women [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)The OP talks about "Radical Feminists". Most 'radical feminists' have beliefs that most of us would consider not so radical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism
Radical feminism is a current theoretical perspective within feminism that focuses on the theory of patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships based on an assumption that male supremacy[1] oppresses women. Radical feminism aims to challenge and overthrow patriarchy by opposing standard gender roles and oppression of women and calls for a radical reordering of society.[1] Early radical feminism, arising within second-wave feminism in the 1960s,[2] typically viewed patriarchy as a "transhistorical phenomenon"[3] prior to or deeper than other sources of oppression, "not only the oldest and most universal form of domination but the primary form"[4] and the model for all others.[4] Later politics derived from radical feminism ranged from cultural feminism[1] to more syncretic politics that placed issues of class, economics, etc. on a par with patriarchy as sources of oppression.[5]
Most of us on DU, including me, would agree with that. If the OP disagrees with that and/or disagrees with wanting to change patriarchy, I have to question if they belong on DU.
What I have been referencing in prior posts in this OP is actually seperatist feminism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatist_feminism I can see from further updates from the OP that they are not referring to seperatist feminism which basically has no effect on anything in politics anyway. RadFem2012 is a conference for seperatists.
Yes, there are seperatist feminist groups in the US and most other western countries. They do not concern me at all.
The bottom line is that the OP is nonsensical at best and at worst, (and quite likely) bigoted against women. I fully support radical feminism as described above and in the linked wiki.