What is a TERF?
Comment on Bluesky: eXodus continues as TERFS lose their brain-rotted minds
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can we stop using the term “TERF”? It doesn’t mean anything at this point. The transphobic assholes on X certainly aren’t radical feminists.
banghida@lemm.ee 3 months ago
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Trans Excluding Radical Feminist. It’s a rabbit hole and it’s not much fun past the first 100 meters.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
the tl;dr is that they are not really feminists, and they use feminist-sounding rhetoric to justify anti-trans views, they’re basically just anti-trans activists.
ContraPoints has a video about “Gender Criticals” (synonymous with TERF): www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pTPuoGjQsI
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A feminist that claims to support gender equality, but thinks trans folk should diaf.
3dogsinatrenchcoat@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
The issue with the term is that radical feminism is transphobic by definition so why specify “trans exclusionary”
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Excluding trans folk is what makes these specific feminists radical. Their beliefs, otherwise, are fairly mainstream feminist.
3dogsinatrenchcoat@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
The core idea of radical feminism is that humanity is divided into two groups - male (ontologically evil, sexual predators from birth) and female (weak, incapable of harm, in need of protecting) while some radical feminists define these groups as being based in assigned sex, and others define them by gender identity, it’s the ideology as a whole that is transphobic, and harmful in many other ways It is far from typical feminist beliefs. Thty advocate for things such as female seperatism, and killing all those they consider men or culling them to a small population to be kept only for breeding.
LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
We need to make FARTs - Feminism Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes - stick instead
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Excellent
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
i prefer to call them divorced losers whose children hate them
VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2I08cQhis
I’d like to call em that, but this has changed my mind.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
OMG I have to use that.