Dictionary.com tries it with TERF and fails.

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They say a lot of TRA work the tech job that decide these kind of thing digitally. What you think?

This to me only confirms JK is right yet again.

But, well-known feminists who have been labeled TERF on the internet have come out to call the term a slur, because it is associated with violence and hatred.

They've got that arse about face or at least badly ambiguous... it's a term heavily associated with violence and hatred towards feminists (or anyone who slightly deviates from genderist dogma tbh) but they're implying that it's in the other direction.

Reminds me of Nazi propaganda posters: "Beware the Jew".

I'm trying to remember the last time TRAs actually promoted the rights of trans people rather than attacking women.

In fact, they often believe they should be denied rights and sometimes advocate for harm against trans people

Appalling. What shit is this? Classic DARVO.

humpty

Of course your mistake there is that you’ve followed a logical line of reasoning, and any fule no, that’s not how we do things these days

Well they can Foxtrot Oscar. Won't be using them again for reference.

TERF is used to describe cisgender women

Mostly used against women, but sometimes against men and even transpeople who don't subscribe to TRA ideology.

who self-identify as feminist but who are opposed to including transgender women in spaces they reserve for people who were assigned female at birth.

Replace the nonsensical "people who were assigned female at birth" with "female people" (or even just "women") and you're almost there.

This is because they believe trans women are men

As do the vast majority of humanity, especially if you're including "pre-op" transwomen.

and since men cannot coexist with their feminist ideologies

What does this even mean??? Of course men exist! Some of them are even supportive of "feminist ideologies". Is this that old "feminist = man hater" bollocks all over again?

they exclude them from their beliefs and support.

Is "them" men in general, or transwomen? My English teacher would have so many red marks on this, her pen would have run out.

In fact, they often believe they should be denied rights

Which rights? Be bloody specific!

and sometimes advocate for harm against trans people

Add "sometimes" and be vague about "harm", and this becomes unfalsifiable.

@Tanith

Reminds me of Nazi propaganda posters: "Beware the Jew".

I'm trying to remember the last time TRAs actually promoted the rights of trans people rather than attacking women.

Just another way in which they are indistinguishable from MRAs.

Those who use it to describe others note that it’s descriptive in nature, and not insulting.

Those that disagree with this note that it is applied widely, without regard to whether the subject being described has even heard of radical feminism.

Reading the dictionary.com definition again, 'TERF is used to describe cisgender women who self-identify as feminist', I suspect that the author has not heard of radical feminism.

“TERF is used to describe cisgender women who self-identify as feminist but who are opposed to including transgender women in spaces they reserve for people who were assigned female at birth. This is because they believe trans women are men.”

But by this logic trans women aren’t “assigned female at birth” - they are “assigned male at birth”. Why would someone assigned male at birth expect to have access to assigned female at birth spaces? This definition, taken literally, says “terfs are evil women who don’t let trans women into spaces that they don’t belong in.”

The fact that they have published this without appearing to understand what 'radical feminist' means or the way the term 'TERF' is generally applied really undermines all their other definitions.

According to wikipedia Dictionary.com uses material from dictionaries like the Collin's English dictionary, but it doesn't seem any more reliable than urban dictionary.

Further down the page, under "who uses TERF?":
"The phrase punch a TERF is often used on social media, particularly on Twitter. Trans advocates use the term to dismiss TERFs and their unsupportive statements and beliefs about trans people. However, the use of phrases like this has led to actual violence."

This should tell you all you need to know about the importance they place on the actual meanings of things. Since we all know that "punch xx" is really just a way to dismiss hateful statements, and any actual violence resulting from it is a bastardisation of the intent.

Just watched Benjamin Boyce's video on this. I might have a slight crush on Benjamin Boyce. But anyway, I thought the video was good.

@queenofknives

Just watched Benjamin Boyce's video on this. I might have a slight crush on Benjamin Boyce. But anyway, I thought the video was good.

Yeah, me too. But he is a bit mannered and does think awfully well of himself, so that tempers it a bit for me.