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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 06:37:57 JST Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
@Ryoko_hakubi
You're trying way too hard to be taken seriously rn for someone who just argued that forced feminization is feminist praxis. :blobcat-joy:
But in the off chance you're not just trolling / clowning:
We could, theoretically, stop acknowledging sex almost entirely, limiting it to medical and family planning settings and such, but this seems rather unrealistic at least in the foreseeable future.
So-called "sex changes" are anything but, and every culture on the globe is still obsessed with gender stereotypes. Sexist attitudes are still almost as strong as they've always been, and pretending like the sexes don't exist simply causes us to become unable to name and address sexism, rather than eliminating it. For example, even transwomen often show the same kind of misogyny as regular men, so eliminating female-only spaces like changing rooms simply worsens women's life.
In short, you're high on theory, ignoring reality.
I can't comment on Firestone's literature because I haven't read it, but you will notice, for example, that Andrea Dworkin gradually became less abstract and theoretical, and more pragmatic and realistic, as time went on. In Woman Hating, she was dreaming of an androgynous sexless future for humanity, musing about how even the taboos against pedophilia, bestiality, and incest may be aspects of patriarchy. Later, when confronted with the actual realities of pedophilia and incest, for instance, she massively changes her tone, telling Alan Ginsberg that she wants to see him dead for supporting NAMBLA.
I've met some very studious radical feminists, active on the gender critical front, who were big fans of Shulamith Firesone, so I have to assume that your interpretation of her works is probably heavily biased in favor of the trans perspective. I've seen the same done with Dworkin, where some MtF trans try to argue that her positions were compatible with, or even in favor of, trans / queer politics, which is just dead wrong:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211102174052/https://www.womenarehuman.com/andrea-dworkin-biological-essentialism-vs-political-materialism/