Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Radfem

from some talk page recently: "I find that people who say that, tend not to ACTUALLY understand what "radical" feminism is about anymore than fundies understand atheism."

I used to consider myself a radical feminist, but then I realized I want myself nowhere near the types who get all worked up about the magical essence of true womanhood. Most women who self-identify with radfem that I've been exposed to are rampantly myopic, ignoring the real world in favor of an imaginary land of polar dichotomies and absolutes which they extrapolate from a few meaningless statistics or anecdotes.

Now, just like any other feminist worth her salt, I can spew paragraphs upon paragraphs about privilege. But I began to feel uneasy about the concept - it makes sense in our minds, but is it a fundamental, psychological, documented aspect of life? To me the concept of privilege runs into a dead end when you try to apply it to anything beyond broad brushstrokes. A lot of pontification about privilege, to me, rests upon fundamentally bad psychology and biology. Radfem tends to exacerbate these bad assumptions.

How right am I? Am I even making sense? Could you give me a better definition of radfem that would make me more comfortable calling myself a member, as an advocate for the end of the patriarchy/gender role imbalance/etc.?