Feminist Fightback

[ladyballs]

FF has announced on Facebook that they're now supporting transwomen as there is so much transmisogyny in the media. Illustrated with a meme exhorting women to support their sisters, not just cisters.

Ffs.

Is feminist fightback some shitey website on a par with everyday feminism? If so they aren't remotely feminist, they exist only to fight for transwomen and multi syllable sexual orientation persons.

Apologies - something may be lost in the translation.

Multi syllable sexual orientation persons?

I thought, but was mistaken, that they were proper feminists. Sigh.

Sounds more like femenist frightpack to me.

People who use a series of words to describe their sexual orientation.

'non binary aromantic polysexual' etc.

My concern here would be their ability to retain the word 'woman' when it comes to discussing issues that specifically impact women on the basis of biology.

They're opening themselves up to a lot of pressure to be 'inclusive', and by that I mean, to not use terminology which would emphasise difference between women and transwomen.

I commented and have had the cultish 'transwomen are women' response.

I cba to engage. It's so frustrating to see feminist groups capitulating to a misogynistic, lesbophobic ideology.

I see.

I'm a middle aged woman, but I do try to keep up so I'm aware that its now LGBTQ (more or less). I just wanted to make sure that was what you meant.

However, I do have similarly aged friend (of about 7 years standing), who is aromantic, which isn't really a new thing: you can find references in literature going back 250 years. Jane Austen - in the character of Charlotte Lucas for example, (Elizabeth Bennett's friend in Pride and Prejudice: "...I'm not romantic you know - I never was.." which she says to Elizabeth when trying to explain to her friend her reason for accepting a proposal of marriage from Mr Collins).

Possibly its the pot I smoked as a teen ( ), but I'm not sure I quite grasp the reason for your tone of disdain? Or am I misreading you? My apologies if that is the case.

Obviously being aromantic isn't new. But describing yourself that way and wanting the world to validate your leanings is.

Well that's been my experience, but we'll leave that there and I wish you a happy new year.

*not

I read 'aromantic' as 'aromatic' and now am craving crispy duck

Feminist Fightback are anarchist feminist aren't they? I seem to recall they were one of the first to drink the kool aid. The op is ancient news isn't it?

and now so am I

We have an have a couple of excellent Chinese restaurant's near by too, and one of them serves gorgeous pots of green tea with it (I prefer proper Chinese green tea to that stuff you get in supermarkets. Far more aromatic and sweet and refreshing).

Guardianlions I only realised today when they posted on Facebook. I didn't know they were one of the first.

So many of them are like that. Feminists United uses a quote by Janet Mock as its tagline. JANET MOCK ffs. Guerilla Feminism is the same. Only about a third of their content is about women.

Oh dear, how unfortunate that organisations now support minorities!

Salmon, feminism is about women. Trans Identified Males are men...

Dismantle Misogyny are just as bad and ban anyone on FB who says that transwomen are male. None of these groups have any right to describe themselves as feminist.

Really weird how whole sections of the population seem 100% ignorant of basic biology.

Probably believe the earth flat, the world was created 6,000 years ago and the moon is made of green cheese. Oh, and that transwomen are women.

No. You can't have Jane fucking Austen. No fucking way.

She's not 'aromantic' she's a woman in a fucking horrible situation as a direct result of having been born with a vagina.

As are many of Austen's women.

So the LGBTQQ+#noirony can get their grubby little hands off her.

Pinknews appears to have dropped the L in their annual celebration of accomplishments.

@ALunerExplorer what a surprise, another not so subtle attempt to derail a thread.

lol, read up on your history. Feminism isn't about women alone @ladyballs

irony there is really something.

lol, read up on your history. Feminism isn't about women alone @ladyballs*

irony there is really something*

Feminism is exactly about womens liberation. Or at least it was. These days it is more about sucking cock, at least in its third wave manifestation as fun feminism.