FeministWiki

FeministWiki is ostensibly a wiki for feminists, but is actually a TERF project. Its founder and administrator is a self-described "pro-feminist male", Taylan Kammer.[2]

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“”The #FeministWiki, newly established, is for feminism unmodified.
— FeministWiki[1]

Among the list of organizations that FeministWiki promotes and "stands in solidarity" with[3] are the British TERF groups LGB Alliance and Woman's Place UK, Meghan Murphy's publication Feminist Current, and worst of all, WoLF (Women's Liberation Front), a supposedly "feminist" organization that effectively functions as a political front for the homophobic Religious Right.[4][5]

Among the tweets posted by the previous (and now suspended)[6] FeministWiki Twitter account, SocJusWiz,[7] was a tweet openly admitting to child molestation.[8]

Views

The main focus of FeministWiki, unsurprisingly, appears to be promoting feminism opposing transgender rights. As of August 2020, six of the nine listings under the "Check out some articles" section on the main page are transgender-related articles, and a further one is an entry on the TERF Magdalen Berns.[3]

FeministWiki's central page on transgender issues is titled with the snarl word "Transgender ideology".[9] The fact that this is the same terminology used by right-wing and Christian organizations is even openly acknowledged on the page, as is the fact that their stance is contradicted by the American Academy of Pediatrics.File:Wikipedia's W.svg In the article, FeministWiki opposes the statement that "trans women are women" based on the idea that this allegedly contradicts the dictionary definition of "woman" as "adult human female",[note 1] while at the same time continually and stubbornly refusing to use the phrase trans woman instead of the questionable "word" transwoman (which Merriam-Webster automatically, and correctly, adjusts to the two-word phrase).[10]

FeministWiki repeatedly uses the term "feminists" in such a way as to position itself as the mouthpiece for what feminists think and do. Examples of this include such statements as "This notion [of gender identity] is strongly criticized by feminists",[11] and "Feminists tend to use the term transgender ideology with a critical tone",[9] and a reference to "...the feminist criticism of the transgender movement".[12] By co-opting the term "feminists" in this way, FeministWiki implicitly gatekeeps the term in such a way as to exclude anyone who does not share these opinions (which may well be the majority of actual feminists).

Naturally, the term TERF is not only a slur,[13][14] but also qualifies as actual hate speech, as FeministWiki is so fond of tweeting in response to anyone who uses the term (coupled with a link to FW's TERF article.)[note 2]

In 2020, the FeministWiki twitter account called Shaun "a misogynist who supports violence against women" on account of calling out the transphobia of J. K. Rowling'sFile:Wikipedia's W.svg audience,[15] and branded Extinction Rebellion as "...a misogynist organisation that supports scapegoating of feminists" in retaliation for tweeting to offer "unconditional support and solidarity to all trans people in the face of unrelenting attacks from Trans-Exclusionary-Radical-Feminists, the media, elected politicians, and even from leading voices within the environmental movement".[16]

FeministWiki's page on the "Nordic Model"[17][note 3] (one of the nine listings showcased on the main page)[3] additionally suggests SWERF tendencies.

RationalWiki

Unsurprisingly, FeministWiki hates us.

“”RationalWiki is a whacksite long run by teenage liberals who follow queer theory.File:Wikipedia's W.svg (An ideology that supports prostitution and pedophilia because of its obsession with “Breaking Taboos”.)
—FeministWiki[1]
“” FYI RationalWiki is led by trans activists and other people who hate radical feminists with a passion. Look at their article on "TERF" or other such topics.
—FeministWiki[18]
“” If anyone's tired of the irrational nonsense spewed by the formerly fun to read "RationalWiki", the #FeministWiki offers a good, science and evidence-based alternative insofar topics of sex, gender and feminism are concerned!
—FeministWiki[19]
gollark: I really should have bought more than 8GB of RAM for this computer. Having it temporarily freeze when I have several hundred tabs open and an IDE and some compression/data fetching scripts running in the background is *not* convenient.
gollark: Happy chicken, Zenthros!
gollark: Bob must be DESTROYED.
gollark: no.
gollark: Or just write some papers on "the taste of various chemicals" and see if anyone accepts them.

See also

Notes
  1. Which it does not, by the way: see Zinnia Jones 2017, the Scientific American, Nature, etc.
  2. Just a few examples are here, here, here, here, here and here.
  3. Not to be confused with the more widely known social democracy-related term.

References
  1. FeministWiki on Twitter.
  2. KammerTaylan on Twitter.
  3. Main Page — FeministWiki (Revision as of 00:05, 17 June 2020).
  4. CaseyExplosion on Twitter.
  5. Rani Baker. Fake ‘radical feminist’ group a paid political front for anti-LGBT organization. LGBTQ Nation, April 12, 2017.
  6. SocJusWiz on Twitter
  7. SocJusWiz on Twitter (archived).
  8. SoyBoy_8Bit on Twitter (archived).
  9. Transgender ideology — FeministWiki.
  10. Transwoman — Merriam Webster.
  11. Gender identity — FeministWiki
  12. FeministWiki on Twitter.
  13. TERF — FeministWiki.
  14. FeministWiki on Twitter.
  15. FeministWiki on Twitter.
  16. FeministWiki on Twitter.
  17. Nordic Model — FeministWiki
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