You can't be a male radical feminist, therefore you can't be a male TERF. You also can't be a trans TERF. Your excuses are weak and your ideology is bunk.
@creepitalism reblogged this post with a similar argument:
A man can’t be a TERF. Radical feminists believe that as males themselves are not victims of the oppression FEMALES face, they can not be feminists but rather allies to the cause. Radical feminists (and the English language) define men as adult human males, so no, a man can’t be a TERF because he can’t even be a RF.
If you want to call someone a transphobe, just call them a transphobe.
As did @tr1angl3 here:
How exactly can there be male Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists? Radical feminism is male exclusionary - in fact that’s precisely why yall hate us so much.
You guys couldn’t make it more fucking obvious that you don’t even know a single thing about the boogy(wo)men you’ve created and instead just scream TERF at anyone who slightly bothers you.
There is no such thing as a male TERF because there by definition is no such thing as a male radical feminist.
Maybe try at least understanding one (1) thing about the group youre supposedly so against
so I’ll respond to these together.
In brief, the context was whether ‘TERF’ is a slur that targets (“biological”) women specifically. I asserted that it is not, since there are male TERFs and trans TERFs and that TERFs are a minority of women.
Now, I have exactly zero interest in policing who can, and who cannot be, a trans-exclusionary, radical feminist. As far as addressing TERFs and their transphobia goes it’s a moot point—there is no value in distinguishing TERFs and TERF “allies” when their words and actions are indistinguishable.
Can a man be a feminist? I don’t think a TERF can be a feminist, but I can’t deny that they are without the risk of ad hoc redefinitions—the “No True Scotsman” fallacy. I certainly can’t deny their right, such as it is, to identify themselves as a feminist.
But, more to the point, one cannot defend the claim that “TERF is a slur for biological women” by claiming that men and/or trans people can’t be TERFs. The argument must be based on how the term is used—who it’s directed at. You cannot assert a different definition—that excludes men and trans people—to justify the claim that it’s a slur for biological women. If you do, then it’s a slur of your own invention, not the people you criticise for using it.
Besides which, I’d like to call a transphobe a transphobe. As I’ve said before, TERF isn’t a slur but a euphemism. It doesn’t mean “women who slightly bother us”; it means Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (and allies).
