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.
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