A TRA discovers that throwing slurs around can bite you in the bum. How inconvenient.

[FloralBunting]

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TFW you're a woman who has gleefully used an Anti-Woman slur for head pats from your woke tribe, and you start to realize that you can't ride the tiger when men start using the slur against you.

I mean, obviously, the people in this thread haven't yet reached the point of just not calling women nasty names for talking about their rights, their main concern is the T word being diluted. But it's always intriguing to see those glimmers of reality pop against the mental shielding of the acolytes.

I think the bulk of young women in the wider belly of the movement are in that category, tbh. It can make for frustrating conversations; so very close to seeing the issue clearly, but inoculated against it by toxic doses of tribalism and thought terminating cliches.

But asking questions like this one is usually the first step on the path out of it for most.

I agree, Floral. I also think that a lot of young women genuinely think that if they don't choose to have children and are serious about their careers, that they can "win" - they won't be like those other girls who have babies (of COURSE their lives will be affected, mothers CHOSE discrimination - they're obviously "cis," right?).

If you're already in that mindset, it's a small step to thinking that if you change your pronoun you've somehow changed your reality. But when the scales slip... well, you end up posting here.

Most of the radfems I know were radicalised by motherhood, when we realised patriarchy really depends on young women not realising that their male peers are looking forward to marriage and children because they don't anticipate losing anything by getting them.

radicalised by motherhood

I like that idea. If anything shows the yawning gaps between the sexes - it's having children. Nothing could be clearer.

No wonder Mumsnet is the portal.

AnyOldPrion I don't know if it was you but I saw one of those beautiful "OK Karens" on Twitter. To think, it could have been any name - but they chose "Karen".

TinselAngel - I have stolen that one too!