@georgia @larsfrommars agreed on all counts, I've always been in general way more sympathetic to most of the problematic feminist tendencies and found them to be far more useful to my experiences as a transfem than the stuff that is deemed acceptable by shitlib academics. the biggest problem with the history of feminist theory/movements is mostly that whatever potential productive conversations there are that could have happened have been erased by libfem, probably because these other tendencies actually pose a threat to patriarchy and other things. granted, there are real problems with various things from the second wave (radfem, existentialfem, matfem, etc.) where they were either overwhelmingly white, or did have actual terfy tendencies (and they did, quite a bit), but the thing you're supposed to do when you take a body of work seriously is grapple with everything that is complicated and difficult about it. we do this with 'problematic' male philosophers, but when it comes to women, they just all get thrown out regardless of how much value their work has.