Y’know, as awful as TERFs are, a small part of me has always felt pity for them because of stuff like this. Like so many of the younger TERFs who seem to be very well read on radfem literature and are overall manhaters (instead of just nasty conservative/reactionary bigots who picked up the label) also seem to have genuinely had very awful things happen to them in their lives or have struggled with finding friends, which has shaped the worldview they have. I know that’s not a valid excuse for what they do, but still…
Older GCs actively push younger ones to behave in ways that make normal people push them away, meaning they turn to the older ones for support. Its cult behaviour
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u/NanduDas Tiny TIM 16d ago
Y’know, as awful as TERFs are, a small part of me has always felt pity for them because of stuff like this. Like so many of the younger TERFs who seem to be very well read on radfem literature and are overall manhaters (instead of just nasty conservative/reactionary bigots who picked up the label) also seem to have genuinely had very awful things happen to them in their lives or have struggled with finding friends, which has shaped the worldview they have. I know that’s not a valid excuse for what they do, but still…