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In reply to the discussion: RadFeminists are making it difficult for the Democratic party to fight the GOP's attack on women [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)The are called radical feminists because they take the extreme position that gender roles trump class, race, and economics as oppressive elements to women and they seek to transform society into a gender neutral culture. George Carlin summarized them best when he said, "I've noticed that most of these feminists are white, middle class women. They don't give a shit about black women's problems, they don't care about Latino women, all they're interested in is their own reproductive freedom and their pocketbooks."
I'm not exactly sure in what you were alluding, but 2nd wave feminist =/ radical feminist. There are plenty of 2nd wave feminists who are not radical feminists.
So yes, they do exist and have for decades, but no they aren't any more of a drag on the Democratic Party than the birthers are to the GOP, or any other group that takes extreme positions because most people are smart enough to figure out that their views don't represent the views of the mainstream. If anything they undermine the women's movement itself as Betty Friedan and other feminists have pointed out.