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Today I absolutely shocked myself by reading a Judith Butler interview and agreeing with much of what she said. I actually agreed with her assessment of most things until she got into the world of “the right “where some of what she said is probably true, but it’s not true about me at all. Butler is the originator of all that is identity politics, an academic Marxist.

But then, I have to remember she is a bit of an old lady who will be thrown under the bus if she hasn’t already. She makes the distinction between sex and gender. So many contemporary transactivists do not make that distinction. In my mind that is their downfall.
I looked up Judith Butler--I didn't know of her. I'm not that interested in radical feminism. The radical feminist I'm most familiar with and have the most respect for is Lierre Keith, Derrick Jensen's sidekick. You would probably like her because she advocates against what she considers violence toward women as explemplified by things like rights for transwomen to use women's bathrooms.

Here is the Wikipedia description of one of the organization's policies, which she chairs:
"The Women's Liberation Front's activism finds its source in second-wave feminist tendencies, such as those of Mary Daly and Janice Raymond, which consider transgender identities untrue and say that women are defined by "their biology and by having 'survived girlhood'", rather than by gender identity.[3] While considered a fringe group by the mainstream progressives, who say the group conceals an essentially discriminatory right-wing ideology under the guise of feminism,[3] the organization has found influence through collaboration with conservative groups on shared legislative views."