kfaythe87 on Nostr: Thank you for linking this. Reading now - just popped back to say, I think one of the ...

Thank you for linking this. Reading now - just popped back to say, I think one of the reasons I'm always so confused with feminist in-fighting is I've sort of romanticized the movement in my head, the way I've always lionized women in general. I had no self-identifying "feminists" in my life growing up, found everything through reading and only got exposed to feminism as a movement in my late teens through a scholarship program where 2 women came from the University of Kentucky (and were run out, by men and women alike) to speak to us students, so I have a probably very naive view of solidarity and sisterhood from not having had the experience of in-person organizing with other feminists. By the time I was a college student it was liberal feminism everywhere, and that didn't appeal to me. I didn't circle back and find radical feminism until my late 20s, and I'm now 36 and land-locked. I don't think I know any women in my circle who would say they're feminists in the mainstream sense, let alone radical feminists. So as I'm trying to connect and expand and grow, I'm realizing belatedly that it's not all rosy, accepting, etc. I see what I think is a lot of internalized and externalized misogyny in how women identifying as feminists interact when they disagree, but I won't be put off. I just ask for patience as I learn which minefields I care to step into and which I'd rather avoid lol