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I think I just understood a certain phenomenon: why did so many old-school feminists get captured by the right-wing movement, especially the anti-trans hysteria? It might be counterintuitive, but I think the signs are there - a lot of the feminist discourse about rape is, if you think about...

...it, very *right-wing coded*. It's fear-driven, it essentializes the perpetrators, focuses on retribution, rarely talks of resocialization, puts blame mostly on individual men instead of social structures... a lot of the typical indicators of "vigilante justice".

that's a hot take, mate. > focuses on retribution, there is nothing wrong in calling out perpetrators. > puts blame mostly on individual men instead of social structures... that's simply not true. you are right, terfs are rightwing-minded, but that has nothing to do with feminism.

> there is nothing wrong in calling out perpetrators. That's a very right-wing reply to that point ;) > that's simply not true. Let's agree to disagree. I think there's a difference between "let's think of how to build a society with less rapists" and "let's think of how to build a society...