A familiar breed of British pundit has resurfaced - loud, self-declared feminists whose outrage is as selective as it is performative, and whose moral compass somehow always aligns with western state power.
They remain silent as Gaza burns, but are quick to find their voice to cheer on Israel and its allies as they threaten to flatten Iran - civilian casualties be damned.
During Israel’s recent strikes on Iran, the radical feminist journalist and co‑founder of Justice for Women, Julie Bindel, branded leftist anti-war feminists “Team Iran” sympathisers. It was a disingenuous, grotesquely misleading and dangerously ideological accusation, but not a surprising one.
What we’re witnessing goes beyond reasoned critique - it is the cynical weaponisation of feminism to uphold state violence.
This is no isolated incident. It’s a pattern.
#OhNoWhyIsContraPointsTrendingAgain
Julie Bindel gets mentioned… Yeah, Julie Bindel is a big time TERF too and the Venn diagram of those “feminists” and TERFs happens to be a circle. The F in TERF stands for fascism.
If your kick is performative contrarianism/“owning the libs”/gleefully being an asshole these days, wrapping yourself in a big ol’ Israeli flag is going to look mighty tempting.
While I certainly agree with you, I think that the upper crust of TERFdom is much less interested in performative contrarianism than they are in inflicting actual harm. Their ideology is entirely centred on attacking anyone they perceive as a threat to their status. Like most fascists, they justify their merciless cruelty as self-defence and that aligns nicely with Netanyahu’s justifications for his genocidal attacks on Palestinians.
Julie Bindel
I’m gonna take a guess that this is a TERF
Here we go. Who knew anti-transgender sentiment goes hand in hand with western chauvinist conceptions?
People who attack vulnerable populations easily switch targets for their hatred
Suffragettes were extremely racist and supported World War I.Yeah, it’s the least surprising thing ever. I’m sure I’ve probably mentioned it before, but the founder of the suffragette movement was an anti-communist who expelled all socialists after WW1. Many former suffragettes ended up becoming fascists and even held positions in the British Union of Fascists. The effect this had on post-suffragette feminism in the UK can still be felt today. It’s no surprise that many TERFs still use the suffragette flag.
first woman in UK parliament was a nazi, and they still bring her up as a feminist icon from time to time
this is just the free west being itself
Far too many people fail to recognize that they’re being socially blackmailed into positions on issues that they have absolutely nothing to do with.
