Feminists in the growing grassroots ‘reactionary’ movement are being cancelled, fired, arrested, and physically assaulted with little reporting from the mainstream media and unbearable condescension from conservatives.
Only just noticing that gender-critical feminists exist, Ami Horowitz has portrayed the hard work and resistance of these feminists as a type of cat-fight within feminism. In a typical type of infantilising of women’s political activism, Horowitz on Outsiders and Sky News Australia said that gender-critical, left-leaning feminists are welcome to come over to the conservative side, ‘The water is great!’ he claimed.
Horowitz claims that left-leaning feminists, like me, are in conflict with our political heritage and are starting to ‘speaking in almost conservative ideals’. This is the exact opposite of what is happening. The conservatives are finally noticing the success of the gender-critical and radical feminists’ arguments and are starting to adopt the arguments themselves.
Gender-critical feminist argue for a secular state free of ideology and the sex-based oppression of the gender stereotypes embedded in both conservatism and gender identity ideology.
What has attracted me and many other middle-aged women to the new wave of grassroots feminism, is that it is closer to the second wave of feminism. Second wave feminism, like conservatism is critical of prostitution, pornography, and surrogacy. Second wave feminists also calls out the exploitation of women across race and religious boundaries, something intersectional feminists are loathe to do.
Gender-critical feminists believe that the ‘third wave’ of feminism has seen a hijacking, or more accurately, a purchasing, of the women’s revolution through financial investment in gender studies and the funding of gender-based, rather than sex-based government policy. Third wave academic based feminism has been remarkably successful only in removing the focus of the bodily needs of women as a population. Women are expensive to maintain, in terms of childcare and workplace participation, so the erasure of women as a sex has been the most effective pushback by government against the demands of women since the women’s revolution began.
Source: Stop saying, ‘Where are the feminists?’ | The Spectator Australia
Intersectional feminism is a male-dominated weapon against feminists. It is an age-old tactic to undermine the unity of the oppressed by pointing to their ‘fake’ differences, differences which are entirely the result of male power and oppression Mia