At the moment you make a critique of patriarchy suddenly all men are black brown disabled mentally ill poor immigrant queer refugee polyamorous diabetic toothless from a developing country and all women are white rich warlord 1stworlders

ive been having a lot of thoughts lately about what my goals are, who are potential allies in my feminism, who i relate most to, and coming to some different conclusions than i think a lot of online radfems tend to. I've been running this blog for ~10 years, and I've seen the same tired discourse cycles play out over and over. things stay so insular, (I know a lot of that is out of our control due to being blocked-and-stay-safe'd into a cupboard. but still.) I think there is a serious lack of understanding shown towards afab trans people. Of course it's the same in the reverse, they don't understand us. I'm not claiming to speak for all radical feminists but as a woman who is at least a bit GNC, who is drawn to others like me, I am becoming increasingly frustrated with this stupid millimeter thin but seemingly impenetrable wall between us. At least in many ways, i think we are the same kind of people, who got nudged one way or the other and grew into different shapes from the same starter plant. I think afab trans people are closer to feminist consciousness than the average "normie" woman, even a liberal feminist one. because like me, trans identified female people have recognized with horror that something is deeply, deeply wrong with the traditional heteropatriarchal world, and don't feel they fit in as a "woman" in society, as society defines it, whatsoever. That starting point is already way farther than your average "normie" woman ever gets, and I think it's very similar to the starting point for some radical feminists. Not to mention, the dwindling to almost to total lack of young GNC and butch women, while we see a proliferation of trans men and nonbinary female people, to me it's obvious, these are the same fucking people. I feel like a straggler who hasn't gotten with the program and joined the crowd, rather than a different type of person. I'm not saying i approve of the program, or that I'm going to join it, I'm just trying to articulate how I conceptualize my place in this insane world. I'm not sure what my point is, or if I even have one. But this is something I have been thinking about a lot. And I'll probably elaborate on more later as I continue to think things through.