I literally just got fucking scolded and told I have some “accountability for my behavior” or whatever because I replied to someone who was insulting me, defaming my character, and lying about me with “Fuck you, you lying piece of shit.” This isn’t the first time this has happened, and it’s always in these anarchist/“radical” mutual aid groups. I was flabbergasted. It was like I was on some other planet.
Speaking for the UK, the ML groups are almost all dudes because they’re sexist terf wankers. The only women in them are terfs, a good portion of them probably fed plants or infiltrators.
All the women with pro-lgbt social views (which is near 100% of women left of liberal) find this a dealbreaker.
Can’t speak for elsewhere in the world but sexism is probably holding back women organisers in orgs and it’s charismatic visible organising women that tend to attract more women if there are no other dealbreakers.
I wrote a paper once how second wave feminism in the UK only really started because men in all the uk maoist organizations literally couldn’t stop themselves from hating women
I suspect this has been inherited in the left from Men’s Working Clubs and the pre-Thatcher left being all-male dirty industry like mining and ship building. The culture transitioned to many of the surviving unions instead and still stinks up the hard-left to this day.
It ironically might be better today if MORE of the left had been destroyed back then so that the culture didn’t survive.