Petition to refer to TERFs as FARTs, which stands for Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Tranaphobe
“Trans-Exclusionary-Radical-Feminist,” when you think about it, is a VERY kind term. To be called a TERF is for the person to admit that they still consider you a feminist.
But what kind of feminist excludes so many women from their movement? If you hate so many women for what they are, you really don’t deserve to be called any kind of feminist, radical or otherwise.
Anti-trans people: Stop calling us terfs it’s insulting
fattyatomicmutant, about to coin a new term: ‘K
Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Transphobe
is far far more accurate too.
Also, if you wanna block every FART on Tumblr, the notes of this post are an excellent space to start. Thank you for making it so easy FARTs.
Without responding to anyone in particular, I wanna explain why the ‘Feminist Appropriating Reactionary’ is accurate.
Aren’t FARTs ‘radical feminists’? Well, they call themselves that and they draw some of their roots from feminists who did coin radical ideas about the patriarchy but when you look at some of the core ideas that current radical feminists took from the seperatism of political lesbians, you actually see…
- Women being defined by their genitals. (reactionary. def not feminist)
- Anything with sex is always anti-woman. Resulting in strongly aligning with conservative politicians on issues such as sex work and porn.
(reactionary. def not feminist) -
Obsessed with the penis as something that ‘taints’ women, several of the
founders of lesbian seperatism were former catholic nuns that saw rejection
of all sex with men as something that kept you ‘pure’, basically
replacing ‘virgin’ with gold-star-lesbian as the pure woman not tainted by evil
sinful penis-in-vagina sex.
Their separatist women-only spaces resembled convents. (reactionary. def
not feminist)
‘Radical feminists’ are part of a reactionary movement if a lot of their principles are based on the idea that contact with a penis decreases the value of a woman and sex with a penis involved is inherently anti-woman. A lot of people who identify as ‘radfems’ claim not to be FARTs, and claim that their radical feminist ideas are not being acknowledged by their opponents, but never actually distance themselves from these strongly reactionary ideas at all.
It’s absurd how this movement came to be hold the word ‘radical’ while the origins of radical feminism have given rise to so many truly radical views like black decolonial feminism, intersectional
feminism, anarchofeminism, revolutionary feminism… it’s absurd that it is the ‘actually women shouldn’t be transgender, bisexual, sex workers, femme/butch, kinky, or anything except what we say a woman should be’ branch laid claim to the words ‘radical feminism’.
If you’re consistently attacking women and working with conservatives to restrict what women can do… ‘Feminist Appropriating Reactionary’ fits the bill.
QueerAnarchism 