Has anyone encountered this FB group?

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NotWeavingButDarning · 20/02/2017 12:45

I usually lurk rather than post here, but I've recently stumbled across a FB group called 'So you want to raise a feminist'.

I joined it and I've been really shocked surprised by the differences between it and what I tend to read on here. I think it's mainly an American group, although some obv. from other places, and loads of the things posted seem quite anti-feminist to me - they call each other 'ladies' a lot etc. Is this just differences between UK and US feminists?

I was just wondering if anyone else had seen/joined it and what you think?

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Bambambini · 20/02/2017 20:56

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Prawnofthepatriarchy · 20/02/2017 20:45

I can't access the FB page, so can't see how old the people posting are. Because I'm wondering how often people who spout that kind of utter bollocks are still at university and happy to theorize, or at least very young and inexperienced.

Most of the posters on MN know all about the immutability of sex because we're either parents or hoping to become so. When none of your friends have had babies yet it's a lot easier to believe that biology isn't a thing.

Bambambini · 20/02/2017 20:38

Well tbh, i use ladies all the time - don't have a problem with it.

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NotWeavingButDarning · 20/02/2017 20:35

Now I'm trying to think of specific examples...there was one post for example where many posters were in praise of Barbie dolls or at least giving 'Meh, I had loads, didn't do me any harm' type of answers.

Another where someone was asking about the use of the word 'ladies' and the majority of respondents seemed to be saying that they often use the words ladies or girls to refer to women.

I think it's more the tone of the whole page, tbh. I am not explaining well, sorry

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Aliasnumberone · 20/02/2017 20:26

Yup that's some liberal progressive post modern intersectionality bullsht alrighty.
I was on a Facebook intersectional page the ther day where a transwoman said all cis scum should die and the women arguing with her that 'she' wasn't a feminist for, you know, hating women and wishing them dead were banned from the group for transphobia and the trans 'woman' was allowed to stay and was fawned over with handmaidens asking if they were OK after the literal violence of the abuse... Facebook fries my brain. There are some great radfem groups though

Bambambini · 20/02/2017 18:50

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Bambambini · 20/02/2017 18:48

See - talkibg of feminist sites, i go out and try to find the sensible Trans folk and intersectional feminists to counter the concern i feel about TActvism. Then i find a conversation like this.

m.facebook.com/comment/replies/?ctoken=707604856086519_707692586077746&p=-5&count=26&pc=1&ft_ent_identifier=707604856086519&gfid=AQDGbqo0KyU5byg8&refid=52&tn=R

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 20/02/2017 16:46

It's a closed group and I can't see any of the posts on my phone. What does it say precisely?

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