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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

leveraging motherhood as shared experience for women in much the same way that much of the twentieth century made military service the shared experience for men, and the downstream political implications of that.