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TERF

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gunsandbanjos · 20/01/2018 19:22

Anyone else not really give a fuck at being called one?

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terryleather · 20/01/2018 19:53

Tediously
Explaining
Reality To
Fuckwits

...Is how a poster on GenderCritical reddit puts it. I really like that.

TallulahWaitingInTheRain · 20/01/2018 19:49

It's nonsense anyway. Nobody is trying to exclude trans people from anything, we are trying to exclude male people from female spaces. TIFs very welcome.

GuardianLions · 20/01/2018 19:45

I don't like it because of the way it is spat out.

It emerged in an era of 'irony' being the excuse for everything - sexism, racism, disablism, etc and the word 'chav' was starting to be used as a way of people openly stereotyping, demonising and blaming the poor- whilst sounding hip and modern at the same time. Oh its just ironic!

And the TERF thing has been the most sticky insult from that era that is used today - and of course it is used to demonise lesbians, older women and any other kind of feminist other than funfems. Misogyny is always so bloody sticky.

Actually, the irony is that self-rightious little Owen writes a book about 'chavs' and yet he is happy to chuck 'TERF' around.

Walkingdead11 · 20/01/2018 19:36

I don't mind the term at all....accurately describes my stance on many trans issues. I do wish the more moderate trans 'women' would call out the heinous stuff the trans activists come out with! Just reading some of their tweets about how we are jealous of their 'vagina's' because theirs don't smell.......🤔

BlindYeo · 20/01/2018 19:36

It means absolutely nothing to me. Nobody around me in real life talks about transgender stuff so it's like a foreign swear word, it has no emotional resonance with me at all. It think it's the same reason why I have never had to peak trans because I have never believed that people could be born in the wrong body in the first place. The emperor has always been naked.

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gunsandbanjos · 20/01/2018 19:32

If the exclusionary (or exterminatory lol) means excluding them from women’s spaces then yes, absolutely I’m a TERF.

I will respect their pronouns and I will support them and protect them from harassment, but I will crawl over broken glass to prevent them taking over women only spaces.

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gunsandbanjos · 20/01/2018 19:29

Good point daily, any name stings more when it comes from one we love.

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DullAndOld · 20/01/2018 19:26

maybe we should 'reclaim' the term and say 'yeh TERF and proud'

LapdanceShoeshine · 20/01/2018 19:25

Only to the extent that I actually really want to slap them

Or say “and?”

(Also, “are you aware of the literal meaning of phobic?”)

DailyWTFMoments · 20/01/2018 19:24

Depends who says it. Random, deluded keyboard warriors - don't give a fuck. My 17 year old daughter - yes, that stings.

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