Inspired by another post about making friends - as the movement gains steam I am sure many of us have found the need to re-examine our lives and friend groups to make sure we're surrounded by like-minded women. Radfem groups are few and far between IRL for obvious reasons, but many groups have flags, emojis, or other signals of their affiliations/ideology that are obvious to those within the group but virtually invisible to those outside. I would like to just brainstorm what some of ours could be. I am sure I have FDS aligned women in my larger acquaintance group online, but how can I signal to them that I'm based without posts that start arguments with men/family/pickmes? I saw one woman suggest adding the suffragette flag somewhere on social media profiles, which I think is brilliant, so are there others that you know of? Obviously we use a crown here in the logo which could also work, but I think that's a little too widespread. Maybe a quote from a specific, based woman in history? Just throwing spaghetti at the wall here.
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One thing I love is "adult human female" It's so subtle, could be a joke, and yet if you know, you know :)
2010-2014 mainstream Feminism was so close to becoming rad-aligned, until the whole gender identity pushback started (I believe this was on purpose, because any time women succeed in one way throughout history, men start a whole pushback movement as revenge, like pornography and serial killings in the 70s being a response to second wave feminism and a way for men to regain control over women)
But any way, a lot of good feminist slogans and illustrations were created or popularized back then. Like "my pussy my choice" "no uterus no opinion" "whatever you can do, i can do bleeding" also anything referencing the salem witch trials gets trans activists' panties in a twist :)
Refusing to use gender identity gibberish while talking about women and female health issues will usually do the trick. When someone says uMmM what about TrAns WyMuHn you just say that's a separate conversation, or that you can only speak for women because you are one. Don't engage further. Radfems will pick up on that.
I do wonder how far the FDS has reached. So far I see no woman on YouTube or real life showing how it’s done. The manosphere manlets still have options so I assume the numbers Of FDS haven’t grown.
FDS needs to be active on TikTok and Instagram more. Or even YouTube where scrotes are roasted, If Reddit is a big no at least don’t stick to websites.
We need to be louder than the red pill and the manosphere to give them some competition.
"I am a radical feminist." No need to be subtle. Why bury it in a bunch cryptic symbols and secret signals that are unclear to most. I think the goal is to not be subtle. If you're being subtle, you're not exactly radical. Being afraid of upsetting men or pickmes is the opposite of what a radical feminist would do. The default resting state of a radical feminist is to anger men and pickmes. If you're not angering men and pickmes, you're not a radical feminist.
Like do you want a sticker or badge to indirectly anger them, like without having to type out words? Girl, FDS hereby empowers you to use your words.
As a compromise, I'll agree to a flag that clearly states "RADICAL FEMINIST" in all caps.
Something kind of silly that reminds me of FDS (if you listen to the podcast) is the power puff girls. How our hosts are lovingly called Blossom (Reaux) Bubbles (Savannah) and Buttercup (Lilith)