man why is Shulamith Firestone so slept on she literally mogs the entire Butlerian genealogy of feminist thought and not only grounds all of the most important ideas of radical feminism in an intellectually rigorous foundational analysis but also overcomes them where seemingly every other radfem descended into various forms of intellectual laziness and bad faith whenever it suited their particular white woman tendencies

@nyx i should look into this

@ikeWren she's goated I love her

@nyx the way people (mis)read her is infuriating - if she is discussed at all, everything she wrote gets reduced down to "baby making tubes-- WEIRD!!!" most of what people try to assert is that she's actually structurally misogynistic wrt making reproduction a central problem that needs solving (bc that blames women or some other really bullshit misread), and that she is absurd and utopian. It ends up making reproduction and sex as essential categories of naturalness -- which curiously mimics the way that butlerian critiques of gender end up reinforcing the unquestionability of sex.

(also people just read everything pre-3rd wave shitlib feminism in terrible faith which does not help -- run into this w wittig all the time)