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She must have a good reason for it, so why is radical feminism so bad? I don't really understand a lot of political stuff. (piefed.social)
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So, I saw an account from a friend that said "Do not talk to me if you're radical feminists (radfems)". If it's because of TERFs, I understand, but what about the rest of radical feminism? I sort of understand what it is but not why it's bad to want to change the system and defeat the patriarchy or whatever.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I saw an account

On where? Twitter? Facebook?

The internet is a zoo. I like to observe, keep it at arms length, and ask “would this little group of people function like this without the internet egging them on?”*

The answer is often “no.”

So maybe your friend is blocking some takes that are completely untethered from reality, and wouldn’t fit a definition of feminism in a face-to-face conversation with a human being. Hence I’d assert the problem isn’t “radical feminism” or whatever it is, but internet platforms that farm toxicity for profit. That seems to be what political extremism boils down to these days.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

This is a problem with all movements. Feminism if your looking back at jane adams is closer to socialism and despite the name but was heavily about sufferage and equality. Over time you got sorta greater and lesser extremes. You have the patriarchy term thrown around and then like things like having physical tests reduced for becoming like a firefighters (the tests are around ligting and draggin dummies of a certain size and weight). At the far extreme you get sorta a all men are evil kind of thing. Its like the way republicans push that democrats are extreme left. I mean there is an extreme left but I don't think any currently hold a congressional seat. A few democrats are decently left but not to the point of extreme. Most extreme left you might see on the internet or at protests but they are more inclinde not even vote democrat seeing the parties as the same (much like extreme or radical feminism might view all men as the same)

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

There are literally "kill all males" feminists, who abort male-foetuses.

I'm not with either gender-icide lobby: all the abort-female-lives ones for sake of "having a son", or with the abort-female-lives ones, for their ideology.

The extremes are MUCH more extreme than mainstream understands..

That said, I'm NOT accusing your friend of having that in mind, when they spoke.

Truly, you'll have to ask them, if you want clarity on why THEY said what they did, you know?

If they're really a friend, then discussion should be possible.

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[–] osloengelen@lemmy.cafe 1 points 23 hours ago

  1. People don't like change

  2. From what I've heard, it promotes misandry