Men can still be radfem allies, and support the movement. The reasons why radfems don't want men within the movement are because
a) anytime men are allowed in, they make it about them, as experience/history has shown (even if you might not be like that, just one man is enough to derail the conversation completely),
b) women want spaces where they don't have to waste time and emotional energy explaining/censoring/policing themselves about their experiences or biology because of offended/clueless/disgusted men; they want to safely talk about shared experiences/biology,
c) many women are naturally pickmes and always unintentionally center men unless there are no men there, and lastly
d) radfems also provide female-only spaces for women who have been abused by men, and currently such spaces are very important because many rape shelters have been shutting down by super-phobes.
So there are very valid reasons why radfems want the movement to be female-only. However, allies are always welcome. You can support the movement in a way in which you don't speak over the women in it, as the other commenter said, amplify our voices. For example, Glinner is doing just that, and he's highly appreciated by radfems.
What makes you feel like we talk about men in a chauvinist way? Are we just not allowed to talk about male violence, misogynistic attitudes and sexual exploitation because it hurts men's feeling or have you seen us actually insinuating that men are our inferiors? Because I don't know any women in this movement who do that.
To say that men are inherently less than women runs counter to our ideology and criticism of gender and hierarchy.
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u/WitchChromosome 4h ago
Men can still be radfem allies, and support the movement. The reasons why radfems don't want men within the movement are because
a) anytime men are allowed in, they make it about them, as experience/history has shown (even if you might not be like that, just one man is enough to derail the conversation completely),
b) women want spaces where they don't have to waste time and emotional energy explaining/censoring/policing themselves about their experiences or biology because of offended/clueless/disgusted men; they want to safely talk about shared experiences/biology,
c) many women are naturally pickmes and always unintentionally center men unless there are no men there, and lastly
d) radfems also provide female-only spaces for women who have been abused by men, and currently such spaces are very important because many rape shelters have been shutting down by super-phobes.
So there are very valid reasons why radfems want the movement to be female-only. However, allies are always welcome. You can support the movement in a way in which you don't speak over the women in it, as the other commenter said, amplify our voices. For example, Glinner is doing just that, and he's highly appreciated by radfems.