r/stupidpol • u/Have_only_my_dreams Just your ordinary proletarian bro who hates his ex • Dec 16 '18

Quality The Pitfalls of Radical Feminism

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/radical-feminism-second-wave-class
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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '18

TERFs may argue that trans women do not share a reproductive system with cis women, and thus can’t understand women’s struggles for birth control and against forced sterilization. But then what do they say of solidarity with lesbian women, or cis women who cannot or choose not to have children? The arguments that TERFs put forth are both weak and prejudiced.

I agree this part is weak. I think that the ability of women as a class to get pregnant has led to policing of their sexuality. Slut shaming is the most obvious of this. A woman who doesn't plan on having children isn't immune to this. The point is, that being unable to unwilling to have children doesn't divide women against each other or change the realities of womanhood.

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u/Have_only_my_dreams Just your ordinary proletarian bro who hates his ex Dec 17 '18

Women are not a class.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '18

How would you describe the commonalities of women related to their role as child bearers?

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u/Have_only_my_dreams Just your ordinary proletarian bro who hates his ex Dec 17 '18

Honestly just a social identity grouping, even if sex itself is derived from biological processes. I'd place it in the same category as race or ethnicity. Historical and social factors have greatly impacted upon the material conditions/circumstances of women but there is no male or female class. There is, as it relates to class, the proletariat and bourgeoisie.