"Because elites are informal does not mean they are invisible. At any small group meeting anyone with a sharp eye and an acute ear can tell who is influencing whom. The members of a friendship group will relate more to each other than to other people. They listen more attentively, and interrupt less; they repeat each other’s points and give in amiably; they tend to ignore or grapple with the “outs” whose approval is not necessary for making a decision."

Fun fact there are like three different trans socials in dublin. One is irrelevant. One sucks, and the other is for trans fems.

The one for trans fems was TAKEN OVER BY A FUCKING POLYCULE AT SOME POINT. SO if you went it would be super fucking awkward to try to socialize because a fucking polycule would be 80% of the people there and if they didn't find you hot or interesting enough to join the polycule they wouldn't talk to you.

So now the transfer social has a representation with local transfems (who aren't babytrans) of just being a big weird anarchist polycule. IDK if its still like that or if it still goes on. THe trans rights non profit shit down its building where it was hosted.

But this article is reminding me how these anarchist "no organizer" shit always ends up being toxic.

but they also don’t read theory.

lmao

Fascinating though, fr

IDK what this means

Speaking for the UK, the ML groups are almost all dudes because they're sexist terf wankers. The only women in them are terfs, a good portion of them probably fed plants or infiltrators.

All the women with pro-lgbt social views (which is near 100% of women left of liberal) find this a dealbreaker.

Can't speak for elsewhere in the world but sexism is probably holding back women organisers in orgs and it's charismatic visible organising women that tend to attract more women if there are no other dealbreakers.

I will also say the big difference I've noticed between joining local ML/maoist groups and anarchist groups is that ML groups are usually mostly men who watch the deprogram and hasan and use too much reddit

And then a few months or years later the whole thing collapses in dramatic fashion. Members scatter, sometimes traumatized. It sucks. I'm not part of any trans groups anymore. Also I'm not baby trans anymore, so that could be a factor too.

When education is not liberatory, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor

I've seen this mostly from sex negative transmisogynist transmascs who will slutshame trans women at every opportunity, but besides that, i recognize a lot of the behaviors described ITT

What if instead of Jo Freeman it was Jo Fremen.

When I played sports we had a saying "the referee won't see the instigating but they will see the retaliation"

Sorry that happened to you