"Radical [feminists] ... appointed themselves as fire wardens, which is a bit rich when it was them who started the bloody fire in the first place!"
Amen to that, at least feminism in general. But nice to see you taking a few well-deserved shots at that "sect" in particular. ICYMI, you might also like Kathleen Stock's more or less cogent argument that radfems were "barking (mad)" to try to "abolish gender":
There ARE some socially useful stereotypes, intuitions, perspectives, and personality types that are more typical of women than of men, and that deserve endorsement and promotion.
But she too has been sounding the alarums about problematic feminism, once calling for its "reboot", largely because the transgender issue has reduced much of it to "risible absurdities":
Though not entirely sure that she's really up to that task herself, once having had some "highly questionable" arguments of her own. From an oldish Quillette article of hers:
KS: "... there is no hard and fast ‘essence’ to biological sex, at least in our everyday sense: no set of characteristics a male or female must have, to count as such.”
That might be news to mainstream biology, at least those channels not yet corrupted by postmodernism, since they are rather clear on precisely what "characteristics a male or female must have, to count as such", i.e., functional gonads of either of two types:
But ICYMI, you might also have some interest in a post and observation by Helen Dale and her guest poster, Lorenzo Warby, to the effect that "the transcult is feminism’s bastard child" -- at least some sects of it -- although I generally disagree with the reasons they offer for that event:
"Radical [feminists] ... appointed themselves as fire wardens, which is a bit rich when it was them who started the bloody fire in the first place!"
Amen to that, at least feminism in general. But nice to see you taking a few well-deserved shots at that "sect" in particular. ICYMI, you might also like Kathleen Stock's more or less cogent argument that radfems were "barking (mad)" to try to "abolish gender":
https://kathleenstock.substack.com/p/lets-abolish-the-dream-of-gender
There ARE some socially useful stereotypes, intuitions, perspectives, and personality types that are more typical of women than of men, and that deserve endorsement and promotion.
But she too has been sounding the alarums about problematic feminism, once calling for its "reboot", largely because the transgender issue has reduced much of it to "risible absurdities":
https://kathleenstock.substack.com/p/feminist-reboot-camp
Though not entirely sure that she's really up to that task herself, once having had some "highly questionable" arguments of her own. From an oldish Quillette article of hers:
KS: "... there is no hard and fast ‘essence’ to biological sex, at least in our everyday sense: no set of characteristics a male or female must have, to count as such.”
https://medium.com/@steersmann/reality-and-illusion-being-vs-identifying-as-77f9618b17c7
That might be news to mainstream biology, at least those channels not yet corrupted by postmodernism, since they are rather clear on precisely what "characteristics a male or female must have, to count as such", i.e., functional gonads of either of two types:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181020204521/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/female
https://web.archive.org/web/20190608135422/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/male
https://academic.oup.com/molehr/article/20/12/1161/1062990 (see the Glossary)
https://twitter.com/pwkilleen/status/1039879009407037441 (Oxford Dictionary of Biology)
But ICYMI, you might also have some interest in a post and observation by Helen Dale and her guest poster, Lorenzo Warby, to the effect that "the transcult is feminism’s bastard child" -- at least some sects of it -- although I generally disagree with the reasons they offer for that event:
https://www.notonyourteam.co.uk/p/a-common-humanity-or-bust
“77% agreed that rape can take place in a relationship and over a long time before it is reported”
I am skeptical about this one. Is this a case of women being too fearful to report rape and/or run away? Are children usually involved?