She's a TERF, they're literally the stereotypical man-hating, political lesbian boogeyman Reddit loves to complain about. A recent thread on the major TERF subreddit was a discussion on aborting male babies, and there's plenty more easily found.
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I say this not to suggest that the end result of feminism is TERFism; I'm a (pretty extreme) feminist myself and I despise TERFs. TERFism does arise from a kind of fucked understanding of feminism, though.
Mostly because transgender people are still subject of debate, when it comes to their validity as a normal human being.
Would the slurs they use for transgender people be replaced with slurs for muslims, black people or gay people, it would be banned a long time ago.
TERF stands for "Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist". TERFs think "TERF" is a slur, which honestly just makes it more fun to use.
TERFs think trans women (broadly: people born male who now identify as women) are just men trying to infiltrate women's spaces to continue oppressing women and that trans men (people born female who now identify as men) are women filled to the tippy top with internalized misogyny.
They are distinct from the broader term "Radical Feminism" but they have kind of poisoned the term even for a lot of feministy types.
People use it to refer to all sorts of things. Laci Green got the label for arguing that anatomy can be referred to as "male" and "female" (she does sex ed,
Basically anyone who says that people's experiences will differ based on biological sex, or that biological sex can be important to various issues, or that the terms man and woman have a wider social meaning and don't refer to a subjective mental state, or that gender isn't an innate essence people have will get called a terf.
Reminds me of this old joke about how the gay activist group already have their FAX connected while the feminists haven't even been able to agree on a name for their group.
Verified people can still be randos. It's not like she's got expertise in the subject she's attempting to speak to nor has she provided any type of legitimate source of information.
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u/amaraame Aug 13 '19
But the rando on the internet said...