• idoubledo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 hours ago

    According to Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex (1970): “[T]he end goal of feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.”[4]

    You seem to misrepresent what Gad Saad said about radical feminism (which is the PC part of it that prevents confrontation with facts), but the most important part about your omission is that you tried to divert from his most relevant example - Queers for Palestine.

    I would love to hear your thoughts on that particular subject, which is much more relevant here.

    • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      I think you misunderstood my example. Also you seem to have mistaken that quote you posted as well. Wishing for a society in which genital differences are not used as a basis for cultural stereotypes is not equivalent to saying “biology/physiology doesn’t matter at all” which was Saad’s straw man.

      As for “queers for Palestine” I’m not going to watch the full video, but my guess is he says something along the lines of “you support people who kill queer people!” which again is a straw man since advocacy groups against the genocide of innocent individuals are very much not advocating for the slaughter of queer individuals, in fact I’d imagine most are against it.

      Imagine there was a prison on fire. And people are saying “oh my god we need to evacuate those people!” Then imagine someone else says “oh so you support thieves and murderers and rapists? I’m an empath but not a ‘suicidal empath.’”

      Obviously the latter person doesn’t actually feel empathy at all and is making a straw man argument against saving people from horrible deaths.

      That’s roughly equivalent to this scenario. Except instead of prisoners it’s just a country of civilians including children, and they’re not just burning but also starving and getting hunted/raped for sport etc.

      • idoubledo@lemmy.sdf.org
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        11 minutes ago

        “raped for sport” hahaha.

        You really should listen to Gad Saad’s entire lecture, you would have not written what you just did if you actually tried to listen to what he said instead of being a contrarian.