New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front-NRLFF Mission Statement and more

MISSION STATEMENT

The New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front (NRLFF) is an organization for and about lesbian feminists. We’re unrepentant gynophiles – women-loving-women - lesbians. Lesbians are descendents of a proud and unique culture that traces its roots back to antiquity. We reject male supremacy in any form; we stand in opposition to it. We always have. Our longstanding endurance is a refutation of its inevitability. We plan to address the following issues:

* We are opting out of the LGBTQI “gender revolution” and reclaiming our proud heritage as Lesbian Feminists. We believe we were forcibly conscripted into the Brave New World of queer theory. We want out.

*We reject the gender colonization and appropriation of the Butch-Femme dynamic by the hetero mimicking of queer theory proponents.

*We renounce and will actively work, both online and in real-time, against the forcible intrusion of gender theorists into women spaces with the sole intention of colonizing the women who reside there.

These are some of the issues The New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front (NRLFF) intends to address and pursue on and off line. We welcome you to our community of self-loving lesbians. You’re safe with us.


About Us

The New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front (NRLFF) rejects patriarchy and its dehumanizing hierarchies. We recognize its self-perpetuating evils and how they manifest in many forms, including: homophobia, sexism, racism, and gender and class oppression. We also recognize the inherent interrelationship of multiple oppressions and identities.

Regrettably, we have not seen the issues of classism, racism, sexism, cultural and gender appropriation seriously addressed within most current LGBTQI communities. We do not believe that queer theory addresses these issues at all. Typically, such conversations are forcibly suppressed. In fact, we see gender theory as a manifestation of white, classed privilege, which is why we completely reject the self-preoccupation of queer theory.

The NRLFF is deeply concerned with the appropriation happening within certain quarters of the LGBTQI community, particularly as it relates to lesbian and butch-femme culture and discourse. We are no longer willing to watch conversations about these issues violently quashed. For too long, we have witnessed interpersonal terrorism, the vilification of women who do not subscribe to queer theory and dare to say so. This typically involves vicious personal attacks, intimidation and stalking; it involves using patriarchal, authoritarian hierarchies to shut down and silence women on and off the internet.

Butch-Femme

The NRLFF believes that the butch-femme community is a prime example of the invasion of lesbian space that has occurred in the last decade. We will no longer allow or tolerate this! Femmes and butch women are the offspring of lesbian identity. The butch-femme dynamic is entirely lesbocentric and lesboerotic. It is not hetero-bi-queer-trans-centric, though aspects of lesbian culture have been co-opted by queer theorists of multiple stripes. Such people are attempting to take up residence in our identity. We stand separate and apart from them.

We reject gender colonization and appropriation. We reject ideologies that serve to normalize, or justify heterosexism and dysfunction in any form. Including, pop culture movements and ideologies that would erase, overtake, co-opt lesbian or butch-femme culture.

The greatest, current threat to lesbian and butch-femme culture is coming from within LGBTQI communities. It comes in a number of ways, including on stealth feet through the use of euphemisms and queer theory semantic contagion – the co-option, and repetition of words separated from their intended meaning and sexed, lived experience.

If this is Femme and Lesbian, I'm a freaking kumquat!

This is capped from a WBW (woman-born-woman) area on a craigslist board. It is in response to some comments/objections one of our New Radical Lesbian Feminists-NRLFF founders posted, protesting the lunacy of numerous ftM's occupying lesbian spaces there. Apparently many ftMers are too fearful to live their chosen "male" ID'd lifestyle and prefer lesbian spaces to help them feel safe and protected from the big bad world of actual men and the rejection of hetero women. While that makes perfect sense considering ftM mentality, what doesnt make sense is the lesbians allowing them, now that they are claiming to be "men", to use our woman space as a hold up. At what point are these hapless baby birds going to be kicked from our protective nests???

This really is just a small sample of the ignorance plaguing most lesbian/butch/femme areas online/realtime. Not only is this particular woman (likely straight, likely disturbed herself) ignorant of ftM's pathological compulsion to erase their sexual femaleness to the point of using drugs and mutilation to achieve pitiable results, she is equally ignorant of Butch women and what exactly comprises as Butch.

What honest to goodness Femme (lesbian) would propose of women so disordered who willingly drug and mutilate themselves into male caricatures can be remotely compared to authentic Butch women, the very notion is derisory??? This not only screams of Butch ignorance it also heterosexualized the Femme/Butch dynamic. A beautifully unique lesbian dynamic that owes nothing to the heteropatriarch! What is she going to compare next, apples and garages???

Even the rubbish claiming Femmes do not know what they're missing sexually from "limiting" themselves to strictly Butch lovers reeks of Femme ignorance and Butchphobia. This woman obviously hasnt spent any time in bed with Femmes, Butches or ftMs! High sex drives are not dependant upon drugs, they are not the product of heteroconsumerism, unless of course you're hetero!

Lesbians are NOT heteropatriarchist, regardless the type of lesbian. Lesbian sex drives are built upon sexually healthy women who feel mentally and physically comfortable within/without their bodies in order to intimately share those bodies with other women, with which both parties achieve more mutual orgasms and a greater intensity of orgasm deepening the lesbian bond!!! All the T in the world cannot accomplish that feat! There is NO legitimacy in apery!

dirt
NRLFF

Trans-where delusion meets disorder

Before tackling the issue brought up by the poster, let me first say this fair use cap was snapped from a Butch/Femme website, a site that not only condones trannyism, but encourages its abuses of mentally ill women. On an aside, the New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front (NRLFF) will not only tackle head on the issue of lesbian sites/spaces online and realtime who promote the drugging and mutilation of women in all its forms, we will challenge these heteropatriarchal policies until they are eradicated from our midst!!!

Now to the question the commentor brings up as to why a person would "transition" were it not to "cure" their illness. A "cure" involves healing, a literal END to a disease, not a temporary reprieve from an illness and surely not a lifetime spent on drugs while searching/hoping/saving for further unnecessary surgeries. If I broke my leg, my leg is not going to be healed properly by undergoing psychotherapy. We cannot expect the disordered to comprehend this simplicity, but shouldnt we as a civilized society expect those treating (medical establishment) this illness to know the difference???

Why is GID (a psychiatric-mental-disorder) the only disorder the medical establishment "treats" physically, rather than where the disorder as disorders tend to do, reside mentally???? The "treatment" for this disorder was created 60+ years ago because the psychiatric community could NOT "cure" gay men of their gayness. Or to be more precise, they could not "cure" feminine gay men of their femininity or their attractions to other men, concentrating wholly on feminine gay men because they were believed to be the ONLY gay men.

If you cannot bring the mountain to Mohammad...so heteropatriarch Harry Benjamin drugged and carved gay men into heterosexualism! The current scale still used today to diagnose GID is largely taken from H.B.'s scale created for gay men. Even though most current psychiatrist readily agree GID has NOTHING to do with sexual orientation. This same scale has been slightly patriarchaly modified to include the female persuasion, rather than create something specific for female sufferers of GID. Even women who think they are men are still misogynistically relegated to that of the shit pile.

Getting back to the comment sited above, the "cut and dry" of it is due to the invisibility of the natures of minority females such as masculine females, young females looking for a reflection naturally look to women, when they do not see anything really resembling themselves there, they then look to males. In seeing some basic characteristics they can identify with, these young girls assume they're male also, until that is, puberty. Then their body betrays their male "idea" of themselves and they begin experiencing body dysphoria (GID).

Most females with such feelings in time grow out of the dysphoria (if given a chance) and later embrace their uniqueness, sadly others do not. They ignorantly assume like the poster they're simply "born in the wrong body", rather than logically being "born in the wrong society".

dirt

NRLFF member