So if your question of why so many young women are turning to radical feminism wasn’t just hypothetical: mainstream feminism let us down. It’s so watered down that when I discovered radical feminism I felt like I’d woken up. You can’t criticize anything in mainstream feminism because choice is sacrosanct and analyzing things deeper is seen as an affront, at least for a lot of people. Radical feminism has a lot of problems, but at least I feel like it’s actually meaningful.

You can be radical and a feminist without being a transmisogynistic swerf.  Respecting sex workers isn’t about ~*~*~*~*~*~Choice~*~*~*~*~*~ any more than respecting waitstaff is about choice, it’s about the fact that our work is real actual work, like any other work, our problems are labor problems and the failure to acknowledge that is really fucking not radical.  You wanna be a Marxist feminist?  Well then failing to analyze and acknowledge our labor as the same as other labor means you’re REALLY BAD AT MARXIST-FEMINISM.

Also the studies claiming that porn makes men violent and misogynistic A: have shit methodology and B: Prove that violent misogynistic imagery (not inherent or unique to porn) encourages men who are already violently misogynistic are encouraged by it… but they’re encouraged by a spring breeze, because they live in a culture steeped in misogyny.

What we call radical feminism is just aggressive defense of the status quo, oppressing trans people and sex workers is not radical and never will be.

Like we need to be able to discuss shit but “radical” (I put it in quotes because whorephobic transphobic misogyny is never radical) feminism is the opposite of helpful.