1. Look, I appreciate the fact that you’re anti terf, I really do as an enby, but you’re causing harm to a lot of people who AREN’T terfs. I.E. you caused a large amount of turmoil for a mentally ill lesbian who has stated multiple times that she’s not a terf or an exclusionist and disagrees strongly with terf rhetoric. After tagging her on this blog, the Actual terfs either attacked her or used her as “another example of lesbian victimization boohoo.” If you’re gonna tag these ppl and their-

2. -posts, why not just do it with slashes so that if they are a terf they don’t attack, and if they’re not you don’t leave them prey to terfs and misinformed activists alike?

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That isn’t how tagging works.

The tags we put on a reblog do not decide if a post appears in a tag or search on Tumblr itself. They only decide if a post appears in that tag or search on our blog.

Only the tags on the OP decide which tag the post appears in on Tumblr. Only post’s original content determines in which searches the post will appear. What happens in reblogs stays in reblogs.

Now, let’s discuss the main issue you raised. What protections do we owe to the people who support our eradication?

It is tempting to say, “none.” That is neither true nor fair. The protections we owe such people are those which we are able to give.

The first protection is to not put people on blast. We do that by writing RFID posts in reblogs. Reblogging limits exposure to radical feminists. This is because it does not affect tag presence. Original posts, even with “slashed out” URLs, are indexed by Tumblr. They appear in tags. They appears in searches. This creates more exposure.

So, what else do we owe people who empower those who want us dead? Do we owe them silence? Do we owe them our complicity? Our submission? Should we allow their mistakes to go unremarked upon, and uncorrected?

Or do we owe them a chance to recognize their mistakes? Do we owe them the opportunity to learn and grow? A chance to improve themselves? To learn the impacts they have? To understand the consequences of their actions?

Mental illness does not excuse bigotry. If someone is under guardianship for an inability to control themselves or their actions, we can direct our criticism to that guardian. Otherwise, we direct our criticism towards the poster. To do otherwise would be to deny a mentally ill person’s autonomy because of their illness.



Similarly, no matter how often someone says they hate radical feminists, they can still spread radical feminist ideology. Hating radical feminists does not excuse supporting them.



Though by mistake, they still support political movements calling for our death.



There is a persistent belief we are “calling out” people and want our followers to attack them. This is false.

In our RFID posts, we point out common rhetorical patterns, hoping those patterns become less common. We see a disconnect between what people say (“I hate radfems”), and what they do (support radfems). We explain how we identified the disconnect. We identify other, similar disconnects in their rhetoric. We explain the most likely way the disconnect formed. We explain the consequences of that disconnect. We discuss how to avoid making a similar mistake yourself.



Note that nowhere in that list do we abuse, attack, harass, bait, or target others.

Unless a blogger self identifies as a radical feminist or a TERF, we go to great lengths to separate the label from the actions. We strive to be as neutral as possible to the people whose works we are studying.



These are protections in our control. But the actions of radical feminists, harassers, and abusers are not in our control. We no more set abusers to abusing than we set you to send this ask. Everyone involved made their own choices.



XOXOX



🌸 Yazminx 🌸

PS: While we don’t block people on this blog often, we encourage everyone on this godforsaken website to set their boundaries. If the work we do here is upsetting to you, please block us. If you want to prevent us from having access to your posts for a critique, please block us.

If you are being targeted by harassment campaigns, please block everyone who so much as breathes a rude sounding breath in your direction.



Blocking is one of the very few powers this website offers its users. Exercise that power.