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There is a massive irony in RadFems drawing upon the imagery of the Suffragette movement to promote their own ideology.

Their "gender-critical" ideology is based on DENYING RIGHTS to people, not supporting the rights of women, which t-people don't infringe on but rather (if you were to see the nuace) reinforce (t-rights are anti-patriarchial by nature, which was at the core of the Suffragette cause).

RadFems use almost the exact same line of argumentation as the anti-Suffragette women used in the early 1900's!

The Anti-Suffragette movement was extremely conservative, patriarchial (obviously), religiously driven, and based on psuedoscience and conspiracy.

The modern-day RadFem/TERF movement is based on social-conservatism (whether "right" or "left"), largely run by conservatives or "right-wing" "liberals" with a heavy dose of religiously inspired dogma and moralism as well as psuedoscience and conspiracy.

"Some women opposed suffrage because they were afraid they would have to give up something valuable"

"Some women felt that they occupied a sheltered and valued position"

"Other anti-suffragists clung to Victorian ideals and feared that the social change that suffrage would bring would also bring a loss of privileges and protection women had been given as a result of being the "weaker sex"" (internalized misogyny, very interesting, and relevant when considering how women react to MtF athletes)

"...the image of the "new woman" would destroy the respect and status they enjoyed as wives and mothers"

"Their goal was to educate the public about the evils of the... movement"

"...Women may have been on the forefront of the movement to deny women... right(s)..."

nebraskastudies.org/en/1900-19

"Opposition to women’s suffrage relied on false narratives that seem particularly outrageous, and sometimes comical, even for that era"

"...mental effort of voting could make women infertile"

“And if women overexerted their already inferior brains, the thinking went, their health could suffer”

newslit.org/updates/19th-amend

"A supporter of Kendal, Vicky Jane, told PinkNews that the “campaign T-shirts of the anti-trans movement” felt “intimidating,” and that she feels that the suffragette movement is being appropriated to exclude trans women"

thepinknews.com/2018/09/26/lin

Tand paper on the subject of Mumsnet appropriating the Suffrage cause:

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

This all goes back to "the powers that be" at that time refusing to give rights to minorities (sexual, racial, ethnic etc...), but only some, and only specific rights and not all rights.

It's a very "liberal" thing to do, to say you're going to give people "rights" but then hoodwink them by only giving a part of them partial rights. It has "divide et impera" all over it.

I imagine Americans of African descent know something about that...

Or gay people in the West in general (they were forced to abandon all links with other groups in order to be given their rights, therefore causing a rupture whose fallout we still see today in regards to how various sexual minorities are treated differently).

Or any "legitimized minority" group there is (Gurkhas in the U.K perhaps?) - theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/21.

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