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palominocorn Jul. 9th, 2020 10:37 am)
palominocorn Jul. 9th, 2020 10:37 am)Just thinking about how a trans group I used to be part of became radfems-ostensibly-without-the-T.
It started with one person bringing up CSA. A lot. Even when it wasn't relevant to anything at hand. And of course everyone agreed that yeah, molesting kids is bad!
Then that person started slowly expanding the definition of "kids" to include 18-19-year olds. Then people in their early twenties. Then people in their mid-twenties. After all, there were studies showing that brains still develop until age 26, and so no one before that age can make reasonable decisions about sex, right? So it's inherently rape for someone of that age to have sex.
Then, slowly - I'm talking over the course of about five months - this person and a few of their closest started talking about how obviously "roleplaying child rape" (what they called CGL) is bad. And at the same time conflated CGL with all kink. So now you have a group that's very loudly and vehemently anti-kink.
After that, the group made the connection from kink to sex workers and furries and polyamorists all on their own, deeming them all as sex freaks clearly out to hurt children - by this point, "child" was very nebulously defined, and generally included anyone more than a few months your junior, anyone noticeably shorter than you, anyone who enjoyed childish things, anyone who had a bubbly or excitable personality...
Then the argument went that the reason child molestation is bad is because there's a huge power gap between kids and adults, and you know who else has huge power gaps? Men and women. Cis and trans people. Perisex and intersex people. White people and People of Color. Abled and disabled people. And so on. In fact, they argued, total segregation by identity was the only way to prevent the abuse of power.
And once people accepted that, well, it was easy to get them to swallow the remaining radfem tenets.
It started with one person bringing up CSA. A lot. Even when it wasn't relevant to anything at hand. And of course everyone agreed that yeah, molesting kids is bad!
Then that person started slowly expanding the definition of "kids" to include 18-19-year olds. Then people in their early twenties. Then people in their mid-twenties. After all, there were studies showing that brains still develop until age 26, and so no one before that age can make reasonable decisions about sex, right? So it's inherently rape for someone of that age to have sex.
Then, slowly - I'm talking over the course of about five months - this person and a few of their closest started talking about how obviously "roleplaying child rape" (what they called CGL) is bad. And at the same time conflated CGL with all kink. So now you have a group that's very loudly and vehemently anti-kink.
After that, the group made the connection from kink to sex workers and furries and polyamorists all on their own, deeming them all as sex freaks clearly out to hurt children - by this point, "child" was very nebulously defined, and generally included anyone more than a few months your junior, anyone noticeably shorter than you, anyone who enjoyed childish things, anyone who had a bubbly or excitable personality...
Then the argument went that the reason child molestation is bad is because there's a huge power gap between kids and adults, and you know who else has huge power gaps? Men and women. Cis and trans people. Perisex and intersex people. White people and People of Color. Abled and disabled people. And so on. In fact, they argued, total segregation by identity was the only way to prevent the abuse of power.
And once people accepted that, well, it was easy to get them to swallow the remaining radfem tenets.