The First RadFem Social Network

[Ethereal]

The censorship of women who criticize the politics of gender identity, which means radical feminists very broadly (as well as some others), on major social media platforms like Twitter and increasingly Facebook recently led an American writer and software engineer named Mary Kate Fain to establish a woman-oriented social network called Spinster, which is a kind of edgy, wonderfully uncool way of saying 'autonomous woman'. The title is also a reference to a hallmark 1986 book by Dr. Sheila Jeffreys 1986 called The Spinster and Her Enemies, which lays out, among other things, an early history of men appropriating control of the women's movement, which is what radical feminists (as yours truly) believe has largely happened to mainstream feminism.

Spinster is linked to lots of other social networks, so there's plenty of dialogue with the outside world that occurs, and men are allowed too, but there are rules to Spinster participation that protect women against harassment and threats, slurs (including "terf"), pornography, etc., and allow women to speak our minds about gender identity politics without penalty.

Spinster launched on Monday (August 12, 2019) and within three days had already become the largest social network using a Gab server. It's proven way more successful than Fain thought it would be already and could wind up being one of the largest feminist social networks on the internet period. Since its launch less than a week ago, it has frequently been overloaded by people signing up. Clearly there is demand for this kind of online independence from both male governance and harassment and corporate control.

Here's a recent podcast interview with Fain about her new social network, which she created after losing her job over her criticisms of transgender politics. I think it'll continue to catch on, perhaps even significantly beyond the radical feminist scene. I think the fact that this is the safest social network on the internet for women and the only one clearly and specifically centered on women's issues and women's lives will be attractive to many even beyond our ideological ranks. Just thought this development was worth mentioning.

Radical feminists may be the last hope in the fight against "transgender" dogmatism.

[Ethereal]

Am I understanding you correctly, the movement to which you subscribe is against gender politics?

Yes. Good job. And it only took you like two years to figure it out.

[Ethereal]

It's kind of sad that this is now considered a radical idea. There was a time when it was considered common sense.

Most people still subscribe to the idea that womanhood is a material reality and not a state of mind. The only difference is that more and more people are terrified of asserting that truth due to the reactionary "transgender" mob that seeks to destroy anyone who runs afoul of their regressive dogma.

[countryboy]

Yes. Good job. And it only took you like two years to figure it out.

Gee, another nonsensical comment from Ethereal, shocker.

[Ethereal]

Gee, another nonsensical comment from Ethereal, shocker.

Polly has been regularly broadcasting her beliefs on radical feminism and transgenderism for years. Yet you are just now figuring out that she opposes transgender politics. Goes to show just how oblivious you can be.

[IMPress Polly]

Most people still subscribe to the idea that womanhood is a material reality and not a state of mind. The only difference is that more and more people are terrified of asserting that truth due to the reactionary "transgender" mob that seeks to destroy anyone who runs afoul of their regressive dogma.

It seems to me like most of the transgender movement activists aren't actually trans-identified people themselves for that matter. Is it just me or does it seem like that's the case to you as well?

[Ethereal]

It seems to me like most of the transgender movement activists aren't actually trans-identified people themselves for that matter. Is it just me or does it seem like that's the case to you as well?

I don't have much direct experience or contact with members of that movement, so I couldn't really say. But there is no doubt that non-trans people, particularly among the medical community, play an important role in propping up the chimerical narrative about gender identity.

[Collateral Damage]

I suppose trans-identified people would take it that way, but facts are more important than feelings here.
Radical feminists don't oppose gender because we enjoy hurting people's feelings. We do so to secure the rights of women to privacy, safety, fair play, and freedom of speech and assembly, as well as the rights of lesbians to reject the advances of men (even men who claim to be women) and to still be recognized as lesbians after so doing. We also do so to end the child abuse of medicalizing children needlessly and otherwise in what we firmly believe are the better mental health interests of trans-identified people themselves.

But by 'securing the rights of women', you are supporting gender. I don't see how one could logically say they don't support gender, but then talk about the rights of women. It seems rather contradictory.

[Ethereal]

But by 'securing the rights of women', you are supporting gender. I don't see how one could logically say they don't support gender, but then talk about the rights of women. It seems rather contradictory.

Sex and gender are not the same thing.

[Chris]

I will offer one last attempt to clarify before concluding that your responses have been in bad faith.

When I said...

"Radical feminists, including me, do in fact reject the concept of gender as a social construct, which is precisely why we reject transgenderism!"

...the statement was meant to be mentally divided by the reader in this way:

PART ONE: Radical feminists, including me, do in fact reject the concept of gender <-- This points to the fact that we reject gender.
PART TWO: as a social construct... <-- This explains WHY reject the idea of gender: we reject it BECAUSE we view it as a social construct, not a material reality.

If you cannot understand at this point, it's because you're choosing not to.

But you once supported "gender as social construct" and now you don't. THat's your contradiction. If you cannot understand at this point, it's because you're choosing not to.