AcidSmiley comments on Feminist celibacy movement 4B is trending in the US after Trump's win

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't see how a movement based on gender essentialism instead of fighting against gender as a class would not become pure terf shit, this happens every single time. Even trans spaces that fall for this end up copying terf BS. It is inevitable when you boil everything down to an onthological evilness of the male condition and completely leave out how patriarchy functions as a system of gendered labor divisions, gendered privileges and self-policing of these classes that are coercively, arbitrarily and falsely tied to AGAB and harm everybody involved.

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[–] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

order-of-lenin

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[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a skill issue. If your feminist movement correctly identifies the past pitfalls of similar strategies and develops theory and propaganda to prevent itself from making the same mistake then it won't be an issue.

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4B is a logical conclusion to both a gender essentialist & class-based analysis of male supremacy. If patriarchy is a form of class rule by men that is reproduced through heterosexuality, then the logical conclusion is for the oppressed genders to organize and strike against it. But since having actual transfeminist principles is one of the weakest links of all cisfeminist movements, they tend towards incorrect essentialist explanations of their own oppression and make liberation impossible.

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