I might shock some people (should I throw in a joke about americans?), but anorexia existed even before Ozempic. Yes, it most often plagued models, singers, and actresses, but, okay, even from that point... have you ever considered that not every woman involved in the modeling industry is a high-paid celebrity? During my early teenage years, modeling agencies for children, mostly for girls, were everywhere, and many parents living close to the poverty line tried to steer their daughters in that direction. And no, I’m not using a euphemism for prostitution here. The logic was: what else could your daughter become, a great scientist, an athlete, or a politician? Naaaahhh put her in dance or ballet or singing, and let’s add modeling, why not. They will have higher chances to find a rich husband. Sexual harassment? Well, that’s just a basic fact of life; it’s everywhere, whats next? [just think back to the 2000s].

And besides that, many women of my age [who had / have anorexia] I know weren't even directly involved in this; they simply fell into the same trap of social expectations. And, importantly, anorexia can often morph into other forms of disorders, such as bulimia. That supposedly "fat" girl everyone bashes for "promoting obesity" might well be the very same person as the "most beautiful [emaciated] girl in the school photo." The thing is that you cant observe random strangers' lives as closely as when it is about popular women.

Hint: it starts with L.

Radical comes from the Latin radix, meaning “root.”

To be radical, you have to go to the foundation of a thing (here: feminism), rip up the old roots that no longer serve, and make space to grow something new.

Treating biological binary sex (Man and Woman) as an immutable category does not shake feminism to the roots, nor does it interrogate some opposite definition of sex that underlies feminist thinking.

It reinforces the same old root system and calls it rebellion.

So, sorry kiddos - you are not radical.

Not compared to feminists who actually did radical work - the ones who challenged patriarchy, marriage law, labor exploitation, sexual violence, and state control of bodies.

Not compared to feminism as a movement - “binary sex is immutable” isn’t a brave new critique, it’s been culture’s default setting for thousands of years.

And certainly not radical in society at large - unless close-mindedness became edgy while I wasn’t looking.

Tbh, all I see here is the same old enemy, essentialism, just wearing a fresh mask.

So I’m coming up with a new word for y'all: femmessentialists.

femmessentialist (noun)

A self-described feminist who treats “woman” as a fixed, innate essence (often rooted in biology or “natural” femininity) and uses that belief to police, gatekeep, or exclude others from womanhood.

By extension, anyone who swaps analysis of power for a sanctified “real womanhood” vibe and calls it politics.

Example sentences:

“Her ‘feminism’ begins and ends at biology - total femmessentialist.”

“The moment the argument becomes ‘real women would never…,’ you’re in femmessentialist territory.”

“They talk liberation but spend all day policing pronouns, bodies, and belonging - femmessentialism with a side of moral panic.”

Related: gender essentialist, TERF-adjacent (often), bio-determinist, gatekeeper

Radical comes from the Latin radix, meaning “root” & that’s the only part you got right here.

Because the “root” in radical feminist does not refer to the whatever tf you’re trying to say it does. I’ve read that paragraph a few times & I don’t know what you are saying what you think the “root” here is. You say “go to the foundation of a thing, in this case, feminism”. So I will assume you mean that root feminism is…. Yeah I have no clue but it certainly isn’t liberation for FEMALE people from a MALE supremacist society.

Anyway I’m assuming you don’t know the definition of radical feminism is because who needs to when you’re attempting to argue against radical feminists. God I wish I had a smidgen of your overinflated confidence going into a fight not knowing what you’re fighting xD.

So I’ll ignore whatever point you’re trying to say “root” means in radfeminism. & tell you what the definition of radical feminism is. For next time. Save you the trouble of a google search.

“Root” means to address the root cause of our oppression, which is sex based. (plus misogyny being in a patriarchy ofc is like the result & tool of males oppressing female people). Radfeminism acknowledges that being female is the basis that males have been oppressing us since the beginning of time. Thus, addressing the root reason we NEED feminism, is to eradicate societal misogyny. Which misogyny is so deeply embedded in every aspect of society this would likely mean full societal overhaul.

So yeah. Root means a female liberation movement is for females! Because society was built by males who forbade women to participate, & exists today with males being societies default.

Happy I could put in the very hard yards to define what you are arguing against seeing as you couldn’t apparently. Amazing.

“Sorry kiddos you are not radical”. Well you literally just tried to explain to us that radical in radical feminism means root & now you’re using it as an adjective. Okay.

“Not compared to feminists who actually did radical work” what. I mean of course you don’t know what radical feminists believe or do. So I didn’t expect anything less. But if you spent one second outside of your bubble to learn what radfems believe in you’d know that.

“Binary sex is immutable” correct 👍 hence why radical feminism is a female liberation movement.

“close mindedness” oh yeah. Radfems, close minded for (checks notes) um wanting female liberation from male supremacy.

“The same old enemy essentialism” oooh boy I love this talking point gender ideologues think they have. Gender ideology relies on bioessentialism to even exist. Bioessentialism means that there are biologically predetermined personality or traits. Such as “presenting masculine & having these stereotypical masculine traits means you are a male” that is what OOP is saying- there is no way to be male or female outside of biology. So unfortunately for transactivists, that is what gender is. Bioessentialism.

Because being female is a neutral state- everything OUTSIDE of being female such as hobbies, interests, personality- doesn’t make someone a woman. If you think it does- you are a bioessentialist, congratulations. 🥳

1. I just addressed

2. No such thing as womanhood. Shared experiences & being able to relate to one another due to shared experiences from say, being female? Sure. But womanhood is a social construct & to suggest it’s a tangible thing is stupid because it isn’t.

I’ll also throw in the fact that”divine feminine” stuff is not a radfem belief. In case you somehow meant that

“Real women would never” unless it’s “real women would never have or have had a penis” or “real women are female” then we don’t say that. We can point to male vs female socialisation to explain some disparities outside of that (such as sexist stereotypes, & being shoehorned into one or the other). But I’m being gracious because you 🫵 are the bioessentialist remember.

& again, biology thing, see above in my paragraph abt being female is a neutral state.

& last but CERTAINLY not least: “talk liberation but spend all day policing pronouns bodies & belonging”. I refer to males with male pronouns & female people with female pronouns. It’s called the English language & being able to describe something accurately. I would not point at a cat & say look at that dog. Acknowledging sex using correct pronouns is not “policing”. AND maybe if males were not shoving themselves into a female liberation movement & actively reverting sex based rights then maybe we wouldn’t have to talk about yall meddling entitled asses. If you don’t want the female liberation movement to discuss the males trying to say they are women & should be included in the female liberation movement- then stop fkn doing that.

Policing bodies? Women & girls are female that’s it. Radfems advocate for abolishing gender & advocating for gender nonconformity AGAINST sexist stereotypes. Which remember you 🫵 the bioessentialist (& previously the DSM 5) regard as what a woman or what a man is. & no, calling a male a woman because they present feminine is not “gender nonconformity”. That is doubling down on sexist stereotypes.

But then again, I see @myth-0s “learned how sex worked from Gundam Wing and DBZ yaoi/slash fic, and used double-colon emotes copiously. ::blushes::” which is information you could not waterboard out of me. So I suppose bad takes comes fairly easily.

I have told him multiple times that she doesn't want to be pet, she has a history of abuse and he completely ignores it. Sometimes this guy has a friend outside with him, and I have said to his friend IN FRONT OF HIM, that my dog is afraid of men because of abuse history.

This guy literally said, "It's okay I'm a girl". (he literally said girl btw, not even woman). And he continues to keep trying to talk my dog and bother her to the point I've now had to go completely out of my way by 15 minutes to get to the park.

And it's just funny because my dog obviously doesn't know what a fucking transgender is. She is following her natural instincts based of past experiences. She recognizes a man and is afraid because she has been hurt by men before. And it's no different than women recognizing potentional danger.

Everytime they try to force and convince us they are women, they are trying to get women to ignore their natural instincts. Natural instincts that keep us safe. I find it even more dangerous when I think of little girls who are now being taught to ignore their instincts from the get-go because they are being lied to about what a man is and what a woman is. Trans activists are teaching them to be disconnected from their feelings, intuition, and reality.

When I was little girl I was left alone by my grandmother in the book isle of the grocery store because I was well behaved and liked to read. A strange man came up to me and I remember feeling immediatly nervous and uneasy. I was a kid so I never would have been able to articulate why I automatically felt that way. But I was right because he started showing me porn from a book and asking me if I knew what that was. I had no idea what that was, but I knew he felt wrong and I ran away to find my grandmother.

I had never felt this unease around stranger women, but this is just one example of where as a child I felt uneasy around a man and when I followed that instinct I protected myself.

So imagine what it's doing to these girls when trans activists tell them, no that's not a man, that's a woman. You know women are safe and that's actually a woman.

And it frustrates me so badly because trans activists say that kids are so accepting, they don't complicate things like adults do. You see this often with the teachers who teach trans ideology. They tell us how little kids are so understanding and just go with it when it's explained to them. News flash, they aren't "understanding and accepting", they're taking everything you say at face value because they are children and easy to manipulate and lie to.

This is what we mean we say trans identified people and trans activists are grooming children. Groomers teach a child to ignore their gut instincts and feelings, they trick them and gain their trust.

I usually just talk about trans identified males and all their bullshit, but the women who take part in this are just as responsible for grooming a generation of little girls.

Think about it this way many Christians believe in principals of charity, I agree with this does this make me a Christian? While we may agree on this topic they also think im gonna burn in hell for liking pussy.

Justice for Agostina. Instead of asking what the hell a 35-year-old adult man was doing with a 14-year-old girl, and what the hell an adult man was doing having sexual relations with a 14-year-old child, they go and blame the girl, her mother, and any other woman in Agostina's life—ANYONE EXCEPT THE MURDERER.

Justice for Agostina. The Minister of Security is out there congratulating the security forces and the dog that found her dead, yet his police chiefs refused to take the mother's report because the River-Belgrano match was playing. They failed to immediately trigger the Sofia Alert—a protocol that is crucial to launch the exact moment a minor's disappearance is reported—all because of a soccer game.

Justice for Agostina, whose life is treated as worth less than a soccer match, and worth less than the life of a murderer and rapist.

They can’t believe that we don’t see everything that moves and want to fuck it… she’s beautiful and so to them there’s no way she hasn’t been fucked