So much of my own job interpreting Trumpism for the public is just reciting elementary second wave insights about masculine domination very slowly and loudly for people who have never been exposed to them before.
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I really want more people to understand just how much the second wave got done, and how inventive and smart they were in how they did it. Everyone dismisses them as strident bra burners (like that's a bad thing) and so we're missing out on lessons about effectiveness in the face of huge resistance.
aug 28, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Can’t say it often enough.
aug 28, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
Second wave gets a bad rap for terf reasons, but, the actual core project of the second wave was just undeniably good and correct and heroic, and it's a goddamn shame how far we haven't come in realizing that project
aug 28, 2025, 1:30 am • 54 0 • view
Also a lot of the thought is incredibly clear and really powerful. Millet is up there with , Marx and Hume for her clarity and power of reasoning.
aug 28, 2025, 1:42 am • 4 0 • view
The radicals never made much headway in enacting their program, but the liberal feminists genuinely transformed American life for the better, particularly through public health efforts and civil rights law—and I’ve been shocked at how quickly their achievements are being reversed and dismantled.
aug 28, 2025, 1:33 am • 97 2 • view
Yeah. And even as to the radicals, like, they took it in some wrong directions maybe but boy is the idea that we need something answering to the description of "radical feminism" not wrong!
aug 28, 2025, 1:35 am • 7 0 • view
I think a lot these days about how much the modern social order is "the bad, pre-liberal order with the rough edges sanded off"
aug 28, 2025, 1:36 am • 2 0 • view
This is also a @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com theme of course
aug 28, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
Honestly I that’s a reductive take on a really complex and internally contentious tradition! Part of the problem, I think, is that people who don’t know very much about the radical feminists feel that they are supposed to declare them “bad” or “wrongheaded,” and in doing so discourage inquiry.
aug 28, 2025, 1:38 am • 27 0 • view
Oh yeah, "maybe" was doing some heavy lifting there For the most part I think the term "terf" is a slander to the actual radfems!
aug 28, 2025, 1:40 am • 1 0 • view
I mean no one is out here defending Janice Raymond.
aug 28, 2025, 1:44 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah. Hard to find an ideological or philosophical tendency that *doesn't* have a few stinkers in the mix
aug 28, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
They were a group of passionate people who disagreed on a lot in the ways that many other movements and intellectual milieus do, and they’re worth encountering as thinkers and individuals in their own right.
aug 28, 2025, 1:39 am • 28 0 • view
On the one hand, I'm glad Andrea Dworkin didn't live to see this utter shitshow led by a twice-elected serial rapist...but on the other hand, I wish she were still around to write about it. I miss her voice.
aug 28, 2025, 10:23 am • 6 0 • view
This! You can be a trans rights radical feminist (it me!). I force younger activists to watch She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry as a v basic overview of how radical, messy and awesome this period of feminist revolution actually was.
aug 28, 2025, 1:48 am • 4 0 • view
Yeah, I was posting online about how bad it had been for women in the 50s and 60s and people literally didn’t understand where their rights as women came from and how recently and how fragile they are.
aug 28, 2025, 3:15 pm • 11 0 • view
I was born in 1963. People now haven’t the foggiest idea of how much crap was simply accepted. My mom still thinks women aren’t ‘strong’ enough to be leaders despite working for very stupid ànd weak men her while life.
aug 28, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Truly sanity warping how like, '70s vintage "women in the workplace" fights are back in style now
aug 28, 2025, 3:17 pm • 16 1 • view
"Men feel emasculated if their partners earn more than they do" buddy it is two thousand TWENTY FIVE, get *over* it already
aug 28, 2025, 3:18 pm • 27 0 • view
Given conditions of basic economic gender equality, that should happen *does the math* oh yeah, FIFTY PERCENT OF THE FUCKING TIME Oh but you don't like that, you want women to go back to being your sex slaves The only reasonable response to which is "go fuck yourself" (literally and otherwise)
aug 28, 2025, 3:22 pm • 11 0 • view
Yeah, my sister was driven out of a great career by sexual harassment in the 60s. I was 15 years younger and had a shiny new set of rights to insist on. It made all the difference. And MeToo was making a difference and we were about to invalidate NDAs so executives couldn’t hide behind them.
aug 28, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
also when they teamed up with Christians to ban porn and were dicks to sex workers. those didn't age well either. we should learn from their mistakes and build a new feminism
aug 28, 2025, 9:17 am • 1 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 9:06 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah. I didn’t realize how much had gotten lost until the Barbie movie. I was a 70s child raised on feminism. In 2023 there were generations of women talking about being heard for the first time in the monologue by America Ferrera’s character.
aug 28, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
and even a few first-wave ones!
aug 28, 2025, 1:43 am • 3 0 • view
Shhh don’t scare them 🤫😂
aug 28, 2025, 2:43 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah there’s a deep connection between the “unitary executive,” patriarchy, and workplace harassment.
aug 28, 2025, 1:22 am • 9 1 • view
After the Weinstein story broke articles started popping up quoting anonymous employees about how much of a massive bully he was in the workplace to everyone and this was my shocked face 😑
aug 28, 2025, 1:25 am • 4 0 • view
The burden of public-facing work
aug 28, 2025, 3:02 am • 2 0 • view