I've just been called a TERF...

Gather round, Woke Youth, and allow me to tell you a tale designed to warn young women and girls to beware of males who are not quite what they seem, or what they want you to think they are. The name of this classic tale? Bluebeard.

Oh, I identify as a PERF. I’ve found my identity after all these years and YOU. ALL. NEED.TO.KNOW

I’ve even got a slogan.

PERF:ect

Have any of them started dying their beards blue yet? It's surely only a matter of time.

I do think PERF is something we should use and own-Penis Exclusionary Radical Feminists. As in I’m not a TERF, I’m a PERF and that means I’m not an -ist, I equally exclude anyone with a penis

Blue hair with intent 🤣

blue hair with intent

The best response to Woke relatives banging on about how terfy you are is probably "nobody cares".

Oh dear, I did not mean open a blue hair debate!
I don't blue hair, I mean blue hair with intent.

Anyway, I have been called genius on this thread, I do love terfy company!

Sophocles I like that response, no reaction to the label at all, takes the silencing power out of it.

He very much believes himself to be feminist and extremely liberal.
In reality, he is mansplaining peacock who champions causes that require no sacrifice from him.

Where is the clapping hands emoji in this place?

I'm going to remember this one!

It's a correlation, not causation!

some of the best blokes in my age group had beards. Sorry that being a natural man is now only practised by idiots

I'm of similar vintage - those beards were in the main 'natural man'. I think the woke blokes are more inclined to sport some type of unnatural 'hipster' style.

They may, however, possibly be subconsciously trying to show that they are real men, even if they say TMAM, for despite many TM sporting beards I'm not sure many can manage something resembling a furry shovel.

Blackopal, you genius: champions causes that require no sacrifice from him.

Nailed it.

The last man I knew who called himself a feminist was also a wife beating rapist.

You're a TERF. Congratulations. Own it. I do.

I believe it is called the ‘blue hair syndrome’.

When I was a child little old ladies with a blue rinse were the local terrors - telling kids off for playing football in the street/being loud/not being in school/breathing..., arguing with shopkeepers over priced and bus drivers over their driving, and generally being rather loudly opinionated. My grandma was a prime example of the ‘blue rinse brigade’ as we called them.

Is there a link?

I have been denounced as a terf by my utterly entitled brother (blue hair) apparently this means I am homophobic and I totes 'suck'.

He very much believes himself to be feminist and extremely liberal.
In reality, he is mansplaining peacock who champions causes that require no sacrifice from him.

I have heard they may be called the cocked crusaders rushing to help the most oppressed ever

My only reaction to being called a TERF these days is to say “oh, do you think?” and carry right on with whatever reality based conversation I was having. I treat it as if I’ve been called a disobedient woman (which is what it means, let’s face it) and as I wouldn’t give a shit about that, so I don’t give a shit about being called a silly name.

Mr Sophocles has a beard, and he is resolutely non-woke . I have carefully beaten the urge to mansplain out of him over the years though, so he wouldn’t fucking dare go on like OP’s willy waver (JOKE! I do not beat my husband, obviously).

Thank you for the ‘vin’ Ereshkigal and terfsandwich. I needed it after that altercation.
I’ve been on MN for a few years, lots of name changes, but I’ve never been called a (legendary MN) viper before. I’m truly honoured, my second badge to be proud of in recent weeks! 😂

Vinandvigour that's one of the best posts I've read on here!
for you viper!

I really really want to test this theory, but think if I walk up to every man with a beard and ask him if he is a misogynist I may be carted off in a straitjacket.

Not convinced. I may be a very different age to most posters, but as a 55 -y old, some of the best blokes in my age group had beards. Sorry that being a natural man is now only practised by idiots. btw very turned off sexually by beards, but platonic male friends with beards were quite common for me. In some ways that's interesting as maybe the nice blokes are being fazed by this shit. Maybe those same woke blokes will come to their senses soon. I believe some of us feminist women were taken in by this shit originally until peak trans hit. Anyway this is steering the conversation off course, but I didn't start the prejudice about blokes with beards. (I shan't be starting a thread about women with underarm hair either. I have had ubderarm hair and hairy legs all my life apart from occasionally for sweat reasons.)

I'm idly wondering if there's a correlation between stupid massive fucking beards, hipster clothes and Old Testament values...

And this is where we are as a society, with young men thinking that it's reasonable to lecture their mothers on what's best for women. Thanks, queer theory.