Radical Feminsts

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AIBU in noticing a increase in radical feminism on MN?

I'm not talking regular old feminism where equal rights are the goal, I'm sure we can all agree on that being important.

But there is a level of extremism emerging that goes from dizzying entitlement to outright man hating.

What gives?

Anyway I'm really intrigued (not really) as to the chain of mental events that led OP to believe that the statements they posted as examples of Rad Fem are, well, examples of Rad Fem....

I'm wondering if caramilk is like caramac?

Does anyone know?

I imagine the thought process went...

"Women are saying unkind things about men, they must be those bloody feminists. And, they're being super extremely mean, so they must be radical feminists too, the meanies".

Something like that, I reckon.

Maybe.

But he called us "feminsts"and that's a word which is unfamiliar to me.

Any form of feminism that is moderated to protect men's feelings isn't really feminism, though, is it?

I don't think feminism that recognises the harm men cause is particularly radical?

There have been a lot of suspicious threads lately... Like many of them, I suspect you are a man, OP. If I know one thing about the mumsnetters, they're a savvy bunch able to sniff out bullshit like bloodhounds 😂

But, on the offchance you are asking a genuine question, the examples you quoted are really nothing to do with feminism, extreme or otherwise. They just seem like people who've had bad experiences which are now negatively colouring their opinions. Feminism is hard to define but it's not what you think it is.

100%. Smarties aren’t ideal but there are quite a few of them. So they last marginally longer. Apart from when I tip the tube into my mouth, and they all come out at once. Still, that is satisfying in its own way.

Not when one accidentally goes down the larynx, though.
🤣

Yes. Extra fun when done with the giant tubes one gets in their Christmas stockings. Smarties in the mouth, smarties in the eyes, smarties in the ears and down the cleavage… take your bra off at the end of the day and discover it’s full of smarties!

Edited to add that I think I’ve just had a feminist related revelation- I can’t get on board with the bra burning because nothing beats taking your bra off after a night out to discover you had shoved a tenner and a fag down there earlier and now you have one last smoke and breakfast money!

take your bra off at the end of the day and discover it’s full of smarties

I hope you eat them before you burn the bra!

Yeah, we know just what you mean.

To a nicety.

No. I think that clearly makes you a Truck Driver.

Ooh.

Can a Rad Fem be a truck driver, or is that only for men?

I've actually found Smarties in my bra before now.

Well @Begsthequestion thinks not.

Yabu, radical feminism is a pretty specific movement.
Also yabu as the idea of what is extremist thinking (as per the thought and speech police) has shifted - you are extremist now for thinking a woman does not have a penis.

This you, OP?

No - but she said she was a woman so she must be.

Remember - you Are who you feel you are, and, who you tell people you are.

oooh. I do love trucks. always wanted to drive one

that's the kind of lifestyle that I aspire to

😂

It’s just the temperature for softening them to perfect squidgy in the middleness.

Does anyone else wonder if the OP thought, in her absence, the ‘man-hating’ would explode on this thread? She could then come back and say “See! This is what I’m talking about!”.

Must be pretty disappointing that instead the chat has shifted to melted bra chocolate and truck driving aspirations.

Radical feminism in action!!!

In the nineties Yorkie was specifically not for girls. Has that changed and can feminists have them now?

Guessing op forgot the bags for life and is having to precariously balance our snacks across the car park.

Either that or op is a flake. (Or 99s as they were known in my day before col crisis!)

Has anyone good any good radical feminism book recommendations?