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8. No offense, but that doesn't mean much.

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 12:33 AM

Nov 2013

People generally modify their statements to accomodate those around them, especially when their views are anti-transgender viciousness.

Now, there have been many recent attempts to try to separate themselves from this dark legacy, but it is really nothing more than damage control.

Here are some of the many, many, many links and they are NOT from men's groups. But really, even a little bit of effort will show you that at the heart of radical feminism is the a strong paranoia against m-f transgender people.

http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2012/05/theres_nothing

http://vaguelyhumanoid.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/radical-feminist-transphobia-a-patriarchal-ideology/

http://www.feminist-reprise.org/docs/radfemtrans.html

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There Is No Such Thing As Radical Feminism Anymore [View all] Bonobo Nov 2013 OP

I never met an anti-transgender feminist. hrmjustin Nov 2013 #1

Really? Would you like some links? Bonobo Nov 2013 #2

Many are equity feminists that have no issues with transgendered folks Major Nikon Nov 2013 #5

I have never met a feminist with a problem with transgendered folk. hrmjustin Nov 2013 #7

No offense, but that doesn't mean much. Bonobo Nov 2013 #8

Maybe that's not the "real world" either nt ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2013 #24

One of them got the boot from here Major Nikon Nov 2013 #4

Ok but in the real world I have never encountered this. hrmjustin Nov 2013 #6

Perhaps that is true, but it is pretty irrelevant to the OP. nt Bonobo Nov 2013 #14

ok but I am allowed to share my real world experience on this am I not? hrmjustin Nov 2013 #15

Of course. Bonobo Nov 2013 #16

Sure. hrmjustin Nov 2013 #17

By the way, I do agree that it is an aberration. Bonobo Nov 2013 #18

links, you say? Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #20

Apparently you weren't in meta much, then, in early-mid 2012. Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #19