Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha...
by graemep on Monday March 24, 2025 @07:43AM
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Close to my view.
Gender IS a social construct though - but sex is not and people conflate the two. The other problem is that if something is a social construct you cannot claim it is also an absolute truth.
Race is also a social construct, which a lot of people who are woke seem to have trouble dealing with - a lot of people who accept gender self-identify seem to be unwilling to accept race self-identify.
Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha...
by watwut on Monday March 24, 2025 @07:52AM
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Why is TERF as a term bad when it actually matches the ideology? You have to be against trans and otherwise feminist. Which is exactly what that is.
Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha...
by sfn42 on Monday March 24, 2025 @08:25AM
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I dont know, I've just seen it used in a seemingly derogatory way. I don't know what it means and I don't care. Nobody in my real life uses that term anyway, it's just weirdos on Twitter and such.
Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha...
by phpnode on Monday March 24, 2025 @08:34AM
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A lot of people who get called TERFs absolutely don't identify as feminists, let alone _radical_ feminists. It's just a meaningless term now
Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha...
by graemep on Monday March 24, 2025 @08:57AM
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The word feminist is also a hard one to pin down. SOme people define it as just meaning believing in equality - but in a society where that is the consensus view (its not true of every society, but it is where I most frequently come across the word) that has little meaning.
To me, that's what woke means. Lots of making demands about how people should think/see things, and calling people names like TERF if they dare question the woke "truth".