Ghost Prototype on Nostr: I've noticed all the ways language and words get muddied (especially regarding women ...

I've noticed all the ways language and words get muddied (especially regarding women and feminism) it's always to our disadvantage

Redefining "lesbian" as more inclusive than "female-attracted female" and women as including "males with special feelings" are ones we're already fighting against since they erase our boundaries

The latest I've seen is conflating radical feminism with separatism. If one must be a separatist to identity as a radfem, that automatically excludes the vast majority of women. Patriarchy functions to entrench males in the lives of women and isolate women from each other, legally, socially, religiously. Even if you want to maintain the absolute "there are no good men", there's a collective Stockholm Syndrome and victims of that don't make a sudden recover when presented with logic.

It's causing infighting in certain communities because separatists, instead of labeling themselves as such and organizing with one another around that, are choosing to stick with the 'radical feminist' label and dogpile any woman who identifies as a radfem and admits to having any kind of relationship with a man. It's clearly wasting energy and causing division.

It's ridiculous. Dworkin, one of the founding mothers, had a male life partner and she hasn't been posthumously dethroned for it because her work is foundational to what most modern radfems believe. And frankly, if we can't hold males to standard AT ALL in any context as individuals, how can we hope to succeed as a movement?

ALL radical and separatist feminists should have a Nordic Model-style approach to feminism - punish the man, help the woman. The world punishes most women just for the sin of being born in our bodies, there's zero reason for other women to pile on.