SWISH

Cate Blanchett attends the Giorgio Armani Show at Milan Fashion Week, September 22, 2017.

Cate Blanchett being Cate Blanchett at London Film Festival. October 6th, 2017.

The older I get the more I accept that female sex-based oppression is the most undervalued, devalued, and ignored/erased oppression out there.

males (a.k.a dickhavers and testicle-bearers) can be oppressed on every other existing axis of oppression (e.g: racial, ethnic, socioeconomic class), which means those forms of oppression matter or matter more. But if the oppression ONLY directly oppresses female people, then far less people give a shit about it, including hardcore lefties.

Gender critical feminists will ask ‘how come it’s only female sex-based oppression that is getting the kind of backlash treatment that it’s getting on the Left (by progressives, liberals, leftists, radikewls, radiqueers, etc)’? Gender crit. feminists point out that other axises of oppression don’t get the kind of treatment that female people and acknowledging female oppression is getting.

The whole sex-based category of “woman” and “girl” has been erased on the radikewl queer left (and its colonization by males is 100% accepted and promoted on the Left), also supported on the Left is the erasure and male colonization of feminism (now replaced by a heavy mix of MOGAI, trans/queer, genderist so-called ~intersectional~ identity politics that is based on female erasure and a revamped form of male dominance and male-centeredness).

While both the female-specific “woman” and “girl” categories have been erased, female-specific and female-only feminism practically doesn’t exist in the liberal, left-leaning, and leftist mainstream. Female-only spaces and female-only organizing are totally taboo and harshly condemned.

No other group is getting this kind of treatment on the Left. None.

I’m always reminded of this when I enter into other tolerated and uplifted progressive or leftist spaces.

I was given entry into the campus office of a black student activist who has a huge sign reading, “BLACK SPACE MATTERS” in large bolded font in their office and I’m reminded about the indisputable fact that a feminist activist in today’s third wave political climate could NEVER get away with having a “FEMALE SPACE MATTERS” sign in a prominent known [office] space.

I would regularly access a black separatist/black-only space on campus and I’m reminded every. Single. Time I enter it that radical feminists and female separatists could NEVER get away with having such a space on the basis of being biologically female in today’s genderist third wave period. Wanting a female-only space or collective would and does cause massive political shitstorms but the black space I enter into is unquestioned and is taken for granted by lefties. No respectable lefty would challenge its existence, it just is.

They’re all these events held by radikewls that experience less resistance by progressive millennials (pumped full of queer theory) because they’re in the mainstream Left and people are very familiar with their androcentric anticap and ~intersectional~ SJ identity politics. A lot of progressive millennials do not react to these “intersectionalists” in the way they react to radical feminists, radical lesbians, gender critical feminists, and female separatists.

There is something specifically intimidating about female-born women and girls organizing on their own, for themselves, with love and loyalty towards other female people, with the intent and purpose of prioritizing female liberation … that for some reason (the reason being misogyny and male chauvinism) causes people to start barking “TERF! TWERF! SWERF!” mixed in with making graphic death threats, rape threats, and suicide-baiting comments.

I’m not saying other progressives and leftists don’t experience cultural or public resistance (from say, the center, right, or even other people on the Left) but female separatists, radical lesbian feminists, anti-porn/prostitution feminists, radical feminists, gender critical feminists, and the like, are being largely treated and targeted in a way that exposes the double standards that permeates the Left when it comes to what kinds of ‘radicalism’ is tolerable, acceptable, or appropriate.