One of my frustrations with Tumblr is people acting as though anti-transmasculinity discourse is almost entirely a Tumblr thing with maybe some Twitter stuff but Twitter is a cesspit so they mostly discount that anyway.
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![Crenshaw is a veteran activist and theorist, but it is young feminists who have enthusiastically turned intersectionality into a feminist cornerstone. When I ask her why, she laughs. “As a term, ‘intersectionality’ has been around since the late 80s,” she says, “so there is something to be said about it being taken up in a robust way 30 years on. It’s like a lazy Susan – you can subject race, sexuality, transgender identity or class to a feminist critique through intersectionality.” But Crenshaw is aware of pitfalls. “Some people can use [intersectionality] as a way to deflect a critique of patriarchy – by saying: ‘How can there be any full structural critique when we are so many different things at the same time?’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:joptyujnp7zecn3ez3ijks3l/bafkreidhqjfm2ox7xm7zfxofxely37mghwynzlzvbot6njewrndixuszca)
![Radical feminism is simply a form of feminism that does not believe women can achieve gender equality within existing patriarchal power structures. It emerged in the 1960s as part of second-wave feminism, distinguishing itself from mainstream forms of feminism with its belief that all patriarchal institutions must be destroyed and rebuilt for women’s oppression to end. As Shulamith Firestone explains in her key text The Dialectics of Sex (1970, [2015]), the goal of radical feminism is
The overthrow of the oldest, most rigid class/caste system in existence, the class system based on sex — a system consolidated over thousands of years, lending the archetypal male and female roles an undeserved legitimacy and seeming permanence.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:joptyujnp7zecn3ez3ijks3l/bafkreigbzzfp4v3xfyjq3xzw5vcyvc7yhvwmytpytxgyzdkleszkcngyd4)
