The Road to Terfdom – Lux Magazine

This is an article about what exactly Mumsnet is, and why it’s so critical to the UK/US split on trans discourse

I see it’s not just a forum, but also sort of an evolution of those young-kid parenting magazines you’d subscribe to for the time, with scored reviews of products, but also definitely a forum, for 20 years, drawing users to stay for and become the culture

Author’s thesis is it’s about all these middle-class women who have a child and for the first time feel the world isn’t built for them and connect that with their experience of using their body to bear a child and their continuity with Womanhood through doing so in honestly a really ‘80s Second Wave way

And I can’t help but wonder how much we escape that cause our equivalent online scenes like, uh, Pinterest? are suffused with a culture that vocally affirms motherhood-as-purpose in not a feminist but a Christian or even Mormon-flavored idiom