Radical feminism fights against women’s oppression. In order to do this, firstly it is needed to define what oppression is, secondly to identify our oppressors, thirdly to identify forms and methods of oppression, and fourthly to identify fighting strategies. Language, and definitions existing in the language are the backbone of radical feminism. It is thanks to language that we have the possibility to construct boundaries of the ideology.

This is how the concept of ‘gender’ appeared. It means a set of social ideas about feminine and masculine, is actively instilled from above, and constantly is being forcibly reproduced. In other words, as a feminist Svetlana Kuprin has pointed out, the female gender is a compulsion to femininity (1). The female gender is the mark of a slave, and this mark can not be removed from oneself by ‘self-feelings’. Feminists introduced the concept of gender in order to have the possibility to characterize the mechanisms, ways and forms of women’s exploitation.

However, after the third wave of feminism the concept of gender was pushed in the category of irrational. Men want gender to be equal to some kind of ‘self-feeling’ and ‘self-identification’. The concept of gender was perverted. They deliberately want to take away from feminists the language, the main tool in fighting the women’s oppression. Kuprin draws an analogy: self-identification is something irrational, unprovable, not objective. This is like if physics took the concept of ‘force’ and redefined it into metaphysical nonsense, such as ‘grace’, and named it ‘improved physics’ (1).

If ‘gender’ is self-identification, then it becomes completely unclear what is gender-based violence. Is it violence based on self-identification (1)? If a man says that he identifies as a woman, will he be subjected to the same specific violence, that women do? Of course not.

The third wave of feminism caved in under neopatriarchy, took the concept of gender, as the key concept in the ideology of radical feminism, turned it inside out, perverted it, and transformed feminist ideology into nonsense, mockery of women, and not just into posturing, but in a whole farce.

One can consider themself agender, pangender, or even catgender (this also exists), but it does not mean anything. Gender is not subjective, it’s the reality that is reproduced by society. In patriarchy a person can have the female gender, or the male gender, be the owner, or be the slave, be either at the bottom - be a woman, or on top - be a man, gender is a strict hierarchy, gender is violence. It is a mistake to believe that one has to feel like an agender to become agender. To become an agender, public perceptions have to be changed, it is necessary for the agender category to exist in the objective reality, in the public consciousness. But it does not.

Self identification indeed can exist in the framework of subjective self-image of one self. We can ‘feel’ even like paving slabs. But what connection does it have to reality? A man can surround himself with specific attributes of femininity, put on a pink dress and a backpack shaped like a toy, but he can not call himself a woman, because it would be an objective lie. So, transgenderism only contributes to reinforcement of gender stereotypes in society. It falsely appears that attributes of femininity or masculinity are the basis of gender. But no, gender is an element of exploitation of women, violence towards us. Discrimination is constructed through gender, women are literally forced under the whip to be feminine. Furthermore, gender is not about personality traits, not about differences between men and women.

Third wave of feminism became a farce a long time ago. Our language is being taken, concepts, with which we construct forms and ways of women’s exploitation are perverted. Going back to the first paragraph of the article: without defining exploitation of women through gender we can not move forward because the concept of gender started to determine the irrational, something that has nothing to do with the objective reality.

It is vital for us to separate transgendenism from feminism, because these are polar opposites. If we don’t do it now, feminism as an ideology and a women’s rights movement will die.

Author: Shveia Krovavaia
Translation: @sdvhug

Sources

1. Womenation quotes. Светлана Куприн. https://vk.com/wall-78564229_24967