We all agree terf has not been a useful term for a long time, it implies they're feminists, it implies they're for women, it reinforces their arguments that they're on the side of women and gives them space to hide their more extreme elements.

Why not something like cis-supremacist? Something that is far-right adjacent would be useful in making people properly make this connection, especially given who they're allying with lately.

  • The_Dawn [fae/faer, des/pair]
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    2 years ago

    The issue is that TERF became synonymous with "worst thing you can be" in queer pos spaces, and because of the hyperbole of the internet, all transmisogyny comes from "TERFs," with people like republican lawmakers getting called TERFs.

    If you really need to see proof, Tumblr is a good place to find them. There are antiracist anticapitalist TERFs. A lot of them post about being sad lonely losers cuz their type kind of winds up being inherently trans pos, but theres definitely also cities/countries that are just straight up TERF enclaves (this is planned, they are a separatist/nationalist ideology, whatever framing you prefer)

    Also almost all the famous feminists/suffragettes in the west were flamming racists. We dont need to depict certain ideologies as being incapable of being weilded for harm, while still maintaining the framework of the namesake