Computing in an academic context, Computer Science, began its existence as a subordinate extension of university mathematics departments, because your foundational proto-Computer Scientists were mathematicians; hardcore theory of computation guys, your Turings and Churchs and Von Neumanns and so on. That meant that an existing academic power structure, the mathematics department, bought the computing equipment, ergo owned the discipline.
Whenever I see the bald assertion that Actually, trans rights or antiracism or what-have-you is feminism, I get this itchy feeling that, however well-intentioned, I'm watching something ultimately rooted in some kind of academic-turf-based power play.
Specificity is not bad. Attempts to collapse specificity inherently erase in favour of the biggest power structure in the room.
The assertion that injustice can, should, must, and will be generically conceptualised on the single, specific, axis constructed to think about womanhood is, mmmmm, also what terfs do. It underlies the unironic position that, yes, Thatcher was Girl Power, which is Good, because Girl.
It's, y'know, it's a position which fundamentally rejects intersectionality? You can't do that kind of conceptual flattening without violence to all the axes you're purporting to represent, including feminism, which isn't a sodding Swiss Army Knife.
