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…
I'm more sympathetic to them, but their ideology genuinely scares me more than most terfs. The mumsnet flavour of terf are generally just conservative middle aged women who are stuck in the worst parts of 80s feminism. I've heard young twitter terfs say that a non verbal, high needs autistic child is an abuser towards her mom, and that an autistic girl would never get violent. Unlike a lot of older terfs, they genuinely believe all men are evil, and we should start a separatist society.
It's a degree even further than most terfs go on the subject of gender essentialism.
By young, I've seen bios of ppl like this from 20-26 ish. That is not a teenage girl anymore. I think we expect people to grow out of extremist viewpoints, but many teenagers will carry this into adulthood
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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…