RH writes: ‘Ironically, the…
RH writes: ‘Ironically, the self-labeled “radical” section of feminism specifically fought FOR the essentialist claim that “there are two immutable and natural categories under which all humans are classified: male and female” which Pendelton discounts at the start of his article.’
Which radical feminists do you have in mind, exactly? The Redstockings, Susan Brownmiller, Marilyn Frye, Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, et al. have repeatedly argued against this claim. It seems pretty tendentious to claim this as the position of the mainstream of radical feminism when so many leading radical feminists have explicitly argued against it.
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