A large majority of feminists are just cultural feminists whether they realize it or not IMO

Cultural feminism meaning an emergent, informal style of feminist thought in which man-as-conquer and woman-as-nurturer as seen as natural properties, not as the result of male supremacy but the cause of it

The thinking here is that in some evolutionary sense penis people are designed to conquer and fight and vagina people are designed to nurture and birth and so violent societies reflect the natural value systems of penis people

Thus the answer to systems of oppression is to put vagina people in charge because they’re naturally less inclined to dominate

Even when people who have a cultural feminist bent make accommodations for trans + intersex people, they still tend to be just moving around the same ideological pieces, assigning psychological phalluses to oppressors and psychosocial vulvas to victims

We could say trans women are women because even if we have physiological phalluses we can still have psychological vulvas and still be on the side of the female-nurturer force of evolution against the male-conquerer force

The thing about this is that it’s at best poor metaphysics, and a great example of why grasp of metaphysics is a useful skill. “Nurturers would make better rulers” might be fine but it doesn’t tell us how we get a nurturer society

Because the order of cause is confused by this system of thought, we can get the conclusion that we don’t need to challenge the incentives or conquerer value systems, or how to incentivize nurturer values on the material level. We just say “put women in charge”

Right and then when female conquerors are exactly as interested in domination as the male ones, the whole thing becomes an exercise in mystification

This is also what happens when we decouple analysis of female oppression from race, empire, and labor. Female participation in whiteness is a historically important ingredient OF whiteness.

It’s not that white women are stripped of their natural resistance to male-dominator-instincts or something like that.

We need to look at oppression as politically driven, not psychologically or instinctually driven