I think that mistrusting a person for liking a musician who did not apologize for attending a festival in 2005 etc is exclusionary feminism too. It's about mistrusting people for not being at precisely the same moment in activism you are.

Well, the organizers of this festival have decided that you are in fact "the other". Rightly or wrongly. This is a matter of subjective opinion. The only things I know about this gathering is what I've read about it on these web sites, but apparently, they are pretty adamant that they want their definition of "womyn"…

I don't know, your replies to other readers were a little dismissive.

I don't necessarily agree that the "racist grandmother" analogy quite applies here, given that second-wave feminist thought laid the groundwork for so much of the progress that has been made for women in the last 60 years or so. And they went to the mat dissecting gender, sex, society, patriarchy, sexuality, and what…

I used to identify as a radical feminist and I honestly fall somewhere in between the 2nd and 3rd wave, personally. (2 and a half wave feminist?) I think inclusion is overall a good thing for everyone, but at the same time, I don't think that abrasively demanding that an event that has been designed for…

Right, and we're getting the trans perspective in the piece above. I was trying to explain to the cis hetero dude up there why it's really not as simple as he's painting it and why radical feminists are causing a "fuss." It's not really a fuss so much as it is a long-standing, massive conflict of thought.

Many radical feminists see trans women as yet another example of people with dicks demanding access to their spaces, telling them they know their shit better than they do, dismissing their feelings and thoughts, and then explaining to them how to feminism.

I've had this thought before, too. Like, in transwomen telling women they can't use words like "vagina," in insisting on access to women-born-women spaces, etc., it's REALLY hard not to see it as men asserting their male privilege and telling women to shut the fuck up, as per usual. And that's what I see it as,…

What you're missing is that trans feminists and intersectional feminist are casually tossing out DECADES of feminist thought about sex and gender. Many radical feminists see trans women as yet another example of people with dicks demanding access to their spaces, telling them they know their shit better than they do,…

It should be noted that West Hollywood is a completely separate city from Los Angeles primarily to serve the needs of its large gay community, which even in the "Modern Family" era is still largely child-free (and gay parents tend to leave the bustling nightlife of WeHo for the suburbs anyway).

I am assuming you are not at all familiar with Los Angeles. There is no scenario in which WeHo is the "nicest possible place" if you are going to bother to commute around Hollywood for a slide. Griffith park is 10-15 minutes away. The demographics of the city do not in any way justify 3 play areas for children. I swim…

West Hollywood is a tiny, congested little place. There really isn't any reason to come here to find a park.

Couple of thoughts as a (former) long term resident of WeHo.

This one is easy. No popcorn eating gifs necessary! The design and allocated specialty space should reflect and be incorporated into the community where the project is being proposed, which is West Hollywood. West Hollywood's demographic has traditionally skewed LGBT and more recently, DINKs and singles. These…

I have a fundamental moral problem with surrogacy. Sorry guys. This story isn't really helping me with that.

Or maybe you should accept that your inability to have a child doesn't mean you get to buy out some poor woman's uterus and then decide that, oops, you don't actually want it because it's not the perfect little snowflake you weren't actually capable of having on your own in the first place. And have fun explaining to…

I feel like, if you are looking into surrogacy, you should make it clear in the contract before inserting fertilized eggs that you have no interest in raising any potential disabled children, so that the surrogate knows going into it that she might have to abort, keep the disabled child, or give it up for adoption. …

I find the IVF/surrogacy industry utterly repulsive overall.