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Trigger warning: blog post lol
I don't know if any of you remember me but I used to be a regular poster here about a year ago. Sadly I experienced an unprecedented period of poor mental heath - funnily enough, due to male violence and misogyny - and withdrew from posting and reading Ovarit until I was more stable.
I just wanted to share the amazing progress I have seen in discussions around women's rights since that time. When I first joined Ovarit radfemmery or GC views were very hushed up, and people rarely spoke about them. But just a few months ago I threw a man out of the women's toilets in a club and the other women cheered me, including strangely one women who considered herself non-binary.
I openly tell people in near any setting that I am a liberation feminist, and when they ask what that means to me, I tell them: I don't want to be equal to men (who wants the right to be emotionally stunted cannon fodder?), I want women to be free; that I believe transmen experience female oppression no matter what they identify as; that people like Kathleen Stock should be allowed to speak, and is reasonable to the point of near conservatism. I tell them that porn is a cancer, surrogacy is immoral, and the subjugation and sale of women is the original blueprint of how to oppress a group, and the tactics developed to exploit women and girls informed exploitation of most other oppressed groups.
And you know what? The vast majority agree with me. Even those who wear progress pride flags and use pronouns in emails find my explanations so reasonable that they hear me out, and often adopt views closer to mine. Even a trans-identified friend of mine thinks pronouns are stupid.
I don't live in a bubble of like-minded people - I'm involved in academia and experienced a lot of hostility before. But thanks to women like you, the bold women of Ovarit who say the truth and give no fucks about it, we are changing minds, winning the argument, and making the world a more welcoming place for feminists, gender critics, and women.
Thank you all, it warms my heart to finally see positive progress. If any of you have similar experiences, I would love to hear them!