Bram

La Scap has written extensively about women's rights & child safeguarding. She's a left wing Serbian woman who survived massive upheaval & had to escape the conflict in her birth country. To call her "racist right" is to ignore all the evidence of her character, her words and her life But it's part of the wider fairytale that goes: Once Upon A Time the terven went fascist & turned on the poor noble left wing feminists who, alone, despise the nazis. Who alone stand brave & true against hatred & racism & cruelty. It is such a head up one's own arse narrative, my gosh. I'm sorry but you are not special or rare for coming to the conclusion nazi = bad In reality, many women woke up & decided that particular small group of prominent left wing feminists were fundamentally wrong in parts of their analysis An analysis that, at that time, conceded female language to men, didnt prioritise trans widows & female prisoners, & wasnt willing to go the root of the problem in law. Despite claiming to spring from radical feminism An analysis that also insisted there were untouchable women in this fight that we mustn't get close to in case we got danger cooties. And if we did it would in turn make us untouchable women too (which, to the LWF, it did). For example, the reason the attempt at ostracising Posie Parker was such a big issue isn't, as those left wing feminists would have it, that Posie is fash & we all chose to eventually join her in a jolly goose step against their advice. The divide isn't a political one really Because at the point where she was surrounded by a baying mob in New Zealand and no flicker of female Solidarity stirred in most of that small group to even speak up about that violence we reached a point of no return. Even for many of those who didn't agree with her on many things Another point of no return was publishing a whole magazine issue about her politics while not having the grace to accurately represent her, give her right of reply or sincerely engage with those women who were risking their safety at her public meetings, & facing male violence. There was an active effort to shame women into agreement with the LWF and dramatics when it didn't work. I've been wrong multiple times on here, and I will be again, but I do try to listen to other women who have experiences and perspectives I don't... And the BIGGEST fault line between the small group of left wing feminists & a majority of the movement has been the total inability by the LWF to listen, discuss, &understand the perspectives of others. To even treat those perspectives as possibly legitimate, because the second we've broken with their worldview we've been rewritten as soft on nazis or bullies or "racist right". It's the energy of the witchunt and it has fostered an incredibly toxic environment, led to the inevitable "infighting" and meant that a lot of women who otherwise could have focused entirely on the serious fight have also had to take their eye off the ball at least now and again to check if everything is still on fire I am certain sincere LWF have also been swept up in the inferno and endured very personal remarks because of it too because once the pies start flying we all get custard to the face But at the very centre of it all you don't have Posie who largely said fuck off and went her own way when the LWF wouldnt stand with her. Or someone like Aja whose been accused and maligned You instead have those, like JCJ, who are very comfortable maligning vast numbers of women (mothers, lesbians, disabled women, trans widows, women trying to change policy in different fields etc) while consistently behaving like the fellow child in the playground who pulls your ponytail until you push her off you & then cries to the teacher that you've attacked her The terven deserved far better So does La Scap The poster here is lying and, worse, probably doesn't know it because the propaganda against other women by JCJ et al has worked so very well Yuk