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5 Jul, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Libfems: down with rape culture! down with sexism and objectification! #timesup #metoo #etc
Radfems: ah we agree! rape culture is terrible isn’t it
LF: ooh it’s awful. we HATE it
RF: so what should we do about it?
LF: (confused) um… I don’t quite follow…
RF: Ok how about… porn! It overwhelmingly depicts scenes of verbal and physical aggression vs women and…
LF: (suspicious) are you kinkshaming?
RF: uh no but…
LF: Kinkshamers! Porn is EMPOWERING! Many women choose to make it and watch it! Porn is FEMINIST!
RF: Ok. How about the sex trade? Tens of thousands of women are trafficked into the sex trade every year and…
LF: How DARE you deny those women their AGENCY!!
RF: I mean it’s not me that’s denying them agency, it’s the
pimps and traffickers and brothel owners that -
LF: Sex work is work!
RF: Ok but the commodification of women’s bodies doesn’t send a great message to -
LF: Sex workers are providing a SERVICE! No different to serving coffee!! WHY DO YOU HATE SEX WORKERS???
RF: Ok I can see we’re not getting anywhere here. How about female sexual objectification in the media? Shall we address -
LF: Emma Watson getting her cleavage out for a sexy photoshoot is a FEMINIST ACT because Emma is a FEMINIST and
anything a feminist does is necessarily feminist -
RF: ok let’s try something else. If we can’t address socio-cultural factors that make some men feel sexual assault is acceptable then we should focus on legal solutions like
longer custodial sentences and a higher rape conviction rate -
Libfems: (suspicious again) you’re not a carceral feminist, are you?
Radfems: Oh my god.
Libfems: Well?
RF: If you don’t want to do anything about rape culture thank god we’ve still got some sex-segregated spaces I guess
LF: Sex is a white supremacist colonial construct! What, do you want GENITAL CHECKS at every toilet? Do you think biology is destiny?? etc etc

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5 Jul
Here Laurie makes a point so breathtakingly stupid and disingenuous it's hard to fathom how she manages to dress herself in the morning.
Understanding how biology factors into rape and sexual assault doesn’t mean you think all men will inevitably rape.
Rape isn't just about biology, it's also caused by a multitude of social/legal norms, psychological factors in individuals, the eroticisation of sexual violence & aggression vs women in porn, and the endless sexual objectification we face.
The idea that rape is going to stop if we pretend that men don't do it to women partly because they've got the requisite biology to both overpower a woman and forcibly penetrate her is just such laughably stupid think-happy-thoughts bullshit
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29 Jun
The fact that Danny Lavery, the transman married to Grace Lavery, took GL's surname when they got hitched should tell you everything you need to know about who's really wearing the trousers in the relationship
I mean, if you didn't already guess from the body language of course
Reminds me of Martine Rothblatt, the world's highest paid female CEO, who is a man (of course) and who confesses that despite his gender change, his wife Bina still somehow ends up doing all the domestic work at home.
Huh. Weeeeeird.
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29 Jun
The existence of biracial Koreans proves that race is a continuum, not a binary. Therefore the boundaries of being Korean are fluid; there’s no such thing as being truly Korean, which means anyone can identify as Korean, & nobody has any right to deny them.
Calm down guys, nobody is saying race doesn’t exist! We’re just saying that it is a fluid & meaningless category into which anyone can identify, even a member of a racial class that's oppressed that of their chosen identity for centuries. Jeez, y u so touchy.
Nobody can know who/what they are better than the person themselves. Therefore when Oil London says he is Korean, we have to accept that he is. To do otherwise is a violation of his right to personal autonomy and self-determination, which are human rights.
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5 Mar
The recent explosion of postmodernist ideals has been fed by the fact that many people, including children, live their lives almost entirely in a place that is rooted in abstraction and divorced from living, breathing, material reality - the internet.
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Points of light fed through a screen are no substitute for being in a place, breathing the air, hearing the sounds and seeing the sights.
Humans were not built to have access to the whole world.
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2 Mar
If there’s anything I’ve learned from the trans debate, it’s that society will always ascribe the worst possible motivations for the actions of women, and the best possible motivations for the actions of men... against ALL the evidence.
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Anyone doubting the assertion that postmodernist theory such as that propounded by Foucault and Butler grooms women to accept male abuse should look no further than the recent documentary on the sex cult NXIVM and its leader, Keith Raniere. (Thread)
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He recounts a story about a 6 year old child who enjoyed her father’s sexual abuse and only suffered later when she learned that society viewed it as a bad thing.
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