An interesting interview in Quillette. An extract:
HLS: You frequently say that you’re not a feminist. I’ve always understood you to mean that you don’t use the label “feminist” because of the baggage that it brings along with it. But while you reject mainstream feminism, surely you are a feminist in the sense that your work is for women. Is my understanding right, or does your rejection of feminism go deeper?
KJK: To truly stand for all women, you don’t need labels. Any label will end up alienating some women, because they won’t agree with it or won’t feel represented by it. It also matters that feminism has [ignored and belittled] motherhood. It should have embraced and celebrated the power of mothers, but it didn’t. So there are many mothers who feel alienated from feminism. It’s also gone too much in the direction of looking for equality with men, rather than thinking about what women actually need on their own terms. And I guess part of it is also leftist feminists early on, constantly attacking me and saying that I’m not a feminist; I don’t meet whatever their standard is for being a feminist. Fine. I’m not a feminist.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
The ending of early medical interventions is a worthy cause as the damage to children is terrible. And clearly self identification, as with the comedian “Suzy”Eddie Izzard, is silly. But sometimes I wonder what exactly the TERF wars are about. And almost all of it is a dispute within feminism. Most of the public argument is built around an assumption that males are a threat to females, when talking the TERF side major on how girls and women need “safe spaces” from the evil male sex, even those who effeminate. While their opponents having consumed more fully feminist academic theory say males can be so feminised as to no longer be so evil. Neither has anything positive to offer males who are simply men or boys. And of course neither even bother with the issue of girls and women who want to be men. Possibly because the latter seem to want women to behave like “men” while the former simply expect men to carry on protecting and serving women. Overall a mess created, as Posie Parker points out, in the petri dish of Women’s and Gender Studies.
What is crystal clear in all this is that males have no “sex based rights” to protect and no one is actually that bothered about boys welfare. All the factions seem agreed that boys and men are tainted by an original sin that renders them inherently evil. So let them contend away. Possibly the factions will so expose the contradictions and common gynocentric underpinnings, that it will lead to the discrediting of the lot.
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Thanks Nigel, good points. Could they be discredited more than they are already?
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