Feminists

Way to belittle our feelings on bigotry, yay, thank you so much!

A female bigot is still a bigot. I'm not going to pretend a sisterhood with someone like Jeffreys any more than I would pretend one with Sarah Palin. I want no part of either of them.

While women may not deserve to be silenced, there are plenty of ideas that damn well do deserve it and should be. Until they are completely stamped out. Racism, for example. Sexism. Homophobia. Rape culture. Ideas that promote hatred for an "other" or in any way reduce a group to second class citizens are counterproductive to any progressive movement. If radfem doesn't want to be associated with bigotry, it needs to disassociate itself, loud clear and as a movement, from people like Jeffreys who promote those ideas. A good start to that would be not inviting them to speak at public events, because then there wouldn't be these little outcries and conferences wouldn't get canceled.

Please try to remember that this is NOT the fault of the people complaining. It's the fault of a group of transphobic women and the organizers who chose to give them a spotlight.