Are TERFs real?

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Heres their subreddit if you want a gander - https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/

I dunno why it exists, but there is also https://www.reddit.com/r/Gender_Critical/ . Probably some dyke on dyke drama at some point, since I see no difference in posts, participants or subreddit ground rules.

 

[George Oscar Bluth Jr]

Yeah, they do, and even if you agree with them on the troons issue they tend to hold a lot of exceptional opinions like 'all heterosexual sex is an act of violence', 'women can't consent to anything with men because of societal power differences', 'porn should be illegal', and 'bisexuals are faking it'. They're fairly easy to find on Tumblr, and are almost all very hardcore man-haters. Their stance on troons is just the broken clock being right twice a day.

 

[Gone_Fission]

As most people here have already mentioned, "TERF" as used by troons simply refers to anyone (primarily women and especially lesbians) who don't believe men in dresses are women or that lesbians should learn to take a dick, regardless of whether the person is actually a radical feminist or even a feminist at all.

Actual TERFs prefer to just be called RadFems or gender critical feminists, believe that biological sex is real but neurological sex/"gender identity" is bullshit, and really REALLY hate men with an intensity rivalling Stormfront's hatred of blacks, including the same sort of extreme stereotyping, histrionic personal anecdotes, and abuse of FBI crime statistics.

Their complete lack of fucks and confrontational nature makes them both aggressively retarded, yet able to occasionally make some good points that are politically incorrect and hurt lib feelings.

 

[MyOtherNicknameIsAPun]

Here's a good overview, a tiny march of TERFs being harassed by, I'm guessing, intersectional crowd

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCrit...ians_assaulted_and_harassed_at_san_francisco/

They exists, but they are fringe.

 

[Feline Darkmage]

I didn’t even know it was a slur.

It's not. It's thrown around way too much. But you can easily spot one if they screech a lot about how its actually a very evil misogynist word.

Also @the OP Community Watch has an entire thread about legitimate TERFy people.

 

[Once A Jolly Banjo]

They exist but rarely appear in public. Only on really, REALLY fringe parts of the internet.

 

[AnOminous]

TERFs are as real as goobergrape. They're just a phantom of tumblr trannies.

The vast majority of people called "TERFs" by troons are just normal women or even men who often aren't even feminists, much less radical feminists, who just happen to think people with an XY genotype and a penis are men. Which they are. Which any normal, sane person realizes. All "TERF" means is that the person who is calling someone that is crazy. And probably really fucking dumb, too. And ugly. And usually fat as fucking hell. And a pervert. And you should keep them away from your kids.

 

[Russian Civil War]

Nah, TERFs are real, just like any fringe ideology is probably real.

Now, are they a genuine force in the world? Lol, no. They're an obscure group on the internet, and an even more obscure fringe group in academia, that trannies only know about because of how much time they spend online.

 

[killmeme]

Here's an example of a TERF.
I enjoy her videos sometimes but had to unfollow her on Twitter because like most feminists she talks about nothing but feminism and also in her case, trannies. And retweets Graham Linehan.

 

[AnOminous]

Nah, TERFs are real, just like any fringe ideology is probably real.

Now, are they a genuine force in the world? Lol, no. They're an obscure group on the internet, and an even more obscure fringe group in academia, that trannies only know about because of how much time they spend online.

By the definition troons use, I'm a TERF. And so are 99%+ of the people in the world who realize that men with penises are men.

 

[Russian Civil War]

By the definition troons use, I'm a TERF. And so are 99%+ of the people in the world who realize that men with penises are men.

Nah, by their definition you'd be an alt-right misogynist pig. TERFs are a very specific blend of ideology, combining radical feminist thought with anti-trans rhetoric. It emerged during the second wave of feminism, such was when historic 'TERFs' established womyn-born womyn spaces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womyn-born_womyn), or spaces specifically for natal women that excluded trans women. This caused a good amount of screeching.

Of course, you're right in that now they're branding pretty much anybody (although primarily natal women) as TERFs, even when they're not explicitly feminist themselves. One can only wonder why these labels lose their significance over time...

 

[averagejane]

well, wherever they are, I wish there was more of them. Seeing terfs and trannies reeee at each other sounds highly entertaining.

 

[killmeme]

well, wherever they are, I wish there was more of them. Seeing terfs and trannies reeee at each other sounds highly entertaining.

I don't know man, most of the time they are about as intense and reeee MEN as any other radical faminists. This would be highly autistic.

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

TERFs are simply feminists with enough foresight to realize that their entire project is in jeopardy if the troons get their way. After all, if anyone can claim to be a woman regardless of any context, then how are they going to keep up the notion that we live under a patriarchy where men hold all the institutional power? If male and female become impossible to categorize and define, then so too does the problem they're seeking to address.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

I dunno why it exists, but there is also https://www.reddit.com/r/Gender_Critical/ . Probably some dyke on dyke drama at some point, since I see no difference in posts, participants or subreddit ground rules.

You'd be correct. There was moderator drama over GC mods ostensibly "suck up to men," which led to the creation of G_C. Ironically GC is more strident than G_C at the moment.

Anyway, kiwis would do well to suck up, the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

 

[Male Idiot]

They certainly exist and are just as rotten as any other kind of feminism and SJW. Don't be lured into a false sense of security by their troon hate, they are the enemy of your enemy, but not your friend.

Of course there are totally legit right wing women out there who want a big beefy guy to protect them, provide for them, and beat up anybody who disrespects them or says bad things about their makeup.

And in more conservative places, the elderly women still remember a time when men worked and they didn't have to, and bemoan good times gone by when a lady simply didn't have to work, and just had to cook and look out for the kids. Mind at those times, looking after kids was easier because you could beat them up if they didn't behave.