Feminism and Social Justice

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Feminism and Social Justice
Questioning Transphobia
By Lisa Harney
August 30th, 2010 at 8:48 pm


http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=2890


So I want to talk about social justice activism, or rather the lack thereof.

I don't want to address this to anyone in particular, but let's say there's a group of feminist bloggers who focus an inordinate amount of time and energy attacking a marginalized group, trying to define that marginalized group under their terms, and often, just playing trying to bully that marginalized group via trolling and the aggressive use of slurs and violent metaphors.

Now, to me, feminism is about many things. I know that sometimes it's summed up as "the radical notion that women are people," but I think that really fails to describe the sheer enormity of what feminism is. Sexism, rape culture, domestic violence, portrayals of women in the media, women being the sex class, reproductive justice, educational opportunities, the wage gap, violence against women in general, lack of medical research, femaleness being pathologized, the deconstruction of the idea that men are default people and women are a variation.