Suddenly policing feminism
Sigh.
What is that even supposed to mean? Feminism isn’t “inclusive” – it’s not about men, and it disagrees with women who oppose feminism. No substantive political category can be “inclusive” in some over-arching way because it’s for X and against Y, so bang goes your inclusion.
Being “inclusive” in that broad sense just isn’t the goal, and never has been, and can’t be. I doubt that Caro herself is “inclusive” in that broad sense – we can see that she’s not “inclusive” of feminists who don’t subscribe to trans ideology, for a start.
Back atcha. pal.
Yes in some ways patriarchy can be oppressive to men, but that’s not the core of feminism. In some ways racism can be oppressive to white people, but that’s not the core of anti-racism. Feminism is about the way women are belittled, ignored, bullied, assaulted, deprived, sidelined, restricted, excluded, treated as inherently and permanently inferior. That’s why it’s called feminism not peopleism.
Updating to add:
If your feminism is inclusive of all, then it ain’t feminism.
Caro also retweeted yesterday about a woman she described as courageous, and that was the correct descriptor.
However, she never sees as courageous those women who stand against men’s intrusion in women’s spaces.
Caro has enormous clout and contact in Australia but never uses that to support oppressed women like those in Tasmania and Victoria who are fighting for Lesbian meetings to exclude males, like Sall Grover, who is fighting for her reputation and her business, like Angie Jones who is harassed by politicians for being a Nazi because nazis happened to march past Let Women Speak in Melbourne.
Caro is the perfect example of the hand maiden.
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Seriously, the response to accusations of being exclusionary oughtta be, “Yes, and?”