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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Translation of word salad please

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Imherefornow · 06/04/2018 17:02

I genuinely want to understand why a feminist thinks that essentialising gender and obscuring sex is progressive. On twitter I was given this reply...

"Accepting& respecting diversity in expression of social constructs & intersects, oppressive hierarchies are more effectively challenged w greater potential to force power shifts, & is the basis of international human rights law.

Feminism is intersectional, or it isn't feminism."

My take on it is that by saying men who express 'woman' stereotypes are actualy women it dilutes what it means to be a woman and thus flips hierachies and expectations of intersects... Nope! Am utterly lost and this reply strikes me as abject nonsense.

However, I really would like to try and understand and would be grateful of a translation from those wiser than I

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DarthArts · 06/04/2018 19:45

It's utter tosh.

Feminism is about women.

There are feminists that focus on what you could term as "branches" of feminism - for example BAME, specific cultures/religions, socio and economic factors and clearly there can be an "intersection" between these because women can be "categorised" by a number of different factors.

However, the one think Feminism never intersects with is men.

This is why TRA's are so keen to push the trans women are women rhetoric.

If people believe this then you can co-opt womanhood and leave it linguistically indefensible by altering the definition and thus key principles of feminism.

Kneedeepinunicorns · 06/04/2018 19:55

The communicative intent is: transwomen are women, justified by kind of linked phrases and buzz words the writer doesn't understand enough to use in a coherent sentence. Any teacher would return that covered in red pen.

I keep thinking of the poor homeless and addicted and desperate in Deptford having this stuff lectured at them by earnest students, who sincerely believe they're communicating some wonderful message of enlightenment.

thebewilderness · 06/04/2018 20:34

We should write the 10 rules of transactivism. Which would be basically the same but more Orwellian.
They do bear a rather shocking similarity. I think we should.

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