Yeah, I don't get why people here throw around TERF for people who are clearly garden variety transphobes. My first instinct is that it cheapens the terribleness of actual TERFs in the original sense. I think I made one or two comments to that effect, got told that TERF just means transphobe now, and figured I should just go with the flow because I'm a cis dude.
I'm sorry you had to deal with that on Reddit, I can only imagine what that must be like. Solidarity, comrade.
I mean, do keep in mind that I'm effectively being a linguistic prescriptivist here so the people who disagree do have a leg to stand on. I just think it's worth keeping the term for the truly horrible people who deserve it.
Yeah, I don't get why people here throw around TERF for people who are clearly garden variety transphobes. My first instinct is that it cheapens the terribleness of actual TERFs in the original sense. I think I made one or two comments to that effect, got told that TERF just means transphobe now, and figured I should just go with the flow because I'm a cis dude.
I'm sorry you had to deal with that on Reddit, I can only imagine what that must be like. Solidarity, comrade.
no, I keep trying to say the same thing and I get just as ignored.
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I mean, do keep in mind that I'm effectively being a linguistic prescriptivist here so the people who disagree do have a leg to stand on. I just think it's worth keeping the term for the truly horrible people who deserve it.
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terfs are second wave feminists and I'm not sure she's a feminist at all... I think her platonic ideal is a terf but she's kind of too dumb