Which Tyler wrote:Actually, I'd say that TERF, like Woke (obviously, not in content) and various other labels, is typically used as a badge of pride for some, and an insult for others.
I'd also suggest that it simply doesn't mean what it's acronym suggests it means. Plenty of TERFs are barely feminist, let alone radically so - so yes, FART is a much better acronym for those.
The difference is that no-one called themselves "Woke" (or "Politically Correct") as a compliment - they started off as terms poking fun before being weaponised by the right. I don't believe anyone uses them as an unironic badge of pride.
TERFs named themselves. Plus, it's not used as an insult in terms of it meaning something else or something untrue to the wielder. It means exactly the same to me as it does to a TERF - they discriminate against a minority because they think they're awful and don't want them to exist - we both are calling the same thing the same thing, the difference is that I think that it's reprehensible and they think it's fine.
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