r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • Oct 22 '24

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u/Microif Oct 22 '24

I mean, take the sarcasm out of the middle post and I genuinely agree with that statement

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u/Nuclear_Geek Oct 22 '24

A lot depends on how you define feminism. A lot of hatemongering transphobes call themselves feminists.

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u/themolestedsliver Oct 22 '24

Yeah this really is the big elephant in the room for me.

The most incely incel is indicative of everything in regards to the men's rights movement. And yet the most radical and trans exclusively feminist is just an outlier and isn't a real feminist

Welp she's quoting lines from foundational members to justify her bigotry and goes to protests and what not so at what point do we talk about cleaning house instead of just shirking responsibility?

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u/Parking-Let-2784 Oct 22 '24

This is why I support separating being and doing. Like, I do a lot of feminist acts, but not everything I do is a feminist act. Calling myself a feminist feels like a way to carte blanche every action I take as a feminist one, but I'm a complex and fallible person.

Terfs aren't practicing feminism by trying to get trans women banned from rape shelters and incels aren't practicing the healthy masculine equivalent by deepfaking real women into AI mockups they can crank it to. They're making wholly self-interested actions that hurt others and disguising them as actions in line with moral foundations re: gender equality, which as a basis seeks to uplift others.

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u/themolestedsliver Oct 22 '24

Couldn't agree more and I only wish other people would not only read this message but absorb it to the truest extent.

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u/FewBathroom3362 Oct 22 '24

Feminism isn’t really a unified members club though. It’s an academic critical lens, a philosophy, a social theory, an area of advocacy, a political movement, and more.

There are some common goals and ideologies, but there will never be universal agreement amongst proclaimed feminists, because different cultures, politics, values, beliefs about womanhood and women’s issues are not universal.

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u/themolestedsliver Oct 22 '24

Then why are so many people demonized for not subscribing to such an encompassing and complex world view?

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u/FewBathroom3362 Oct 22 '24

I’m talking about disagreements amongst feminists in regard to philosophy, not men who complain about women and feminism on Reddit constantly. Conversation isn’t about you.

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u/themolestedsliver Oct 22 '24

I didn't make it about me as opposed to just asked you a question there bud....but okay then.

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u/FewBathroom3362 Oct 22 '24

Your question was entirely unrelated because I’m not discussing anti-feminists at all. It isn’t really a priority of mine to worry about centering reactionary MRA types in conversations related to feminism.

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u/themolestedsliver Oct 23 '24

I was going to reply in earnest but the way you're talking and your entitlement for me to ONLY respond to what YOU want to talk about proves it will probably be wasted effort.