So, I saw an account from a friend that said “Do not talk to me if you’re radical feminists (radfems)”. If it’s because of TERFs, I understand, but what about the rest of radical feminism? I sort of understand what it is but not why it’s bad to want to change the system and defeat the patriarchy or whatever.
I saw an account
On where? Twitter? Facebook?
The internet is a zoo. I like to observe, keep it at arms length, and ask “would this little group of people function like this without the internet egging them on?”*
The answer is often “no.”
So maybe your friend is blocking some takes that are completely untethered from reality, and wouldn’t fit a definition of feminism in a face-to-face conversation with a human being. Hence I’d assert the problem isn’t “radical feminism” or whatever it is, but internet platforms that farm toxicity for profit. That seems to be what political extremism boils down to these days.
There are literally “kill all males” feminists, who abort male-foetuses.
I’m not with either gender-icide lobby: all the abort-female-lives ones for sake of “having a son”, or with the abort-female-lives ones, for their ideology.
The extremes are MUCH more extreme than mainstream understands…
That said, I’m NOT accusing your friend of having that in mind, when they spoke.
Truly, you’ll have to ask them, if you want clarity on why THEY said what they did, you know?
If they’re really a friend, then discussion should be possible.
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People don’t like change
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From what I’ve heard, it promotes misandry
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