The reliance on people's personal experiences (for example, field reports) for knowledge on what women as a group are like is one of the most common criticisms of TRP. On the occasions that I read the subreddit, I'm usually struck by how comfortable people are with making grand declarations about what women as a group are like (or even about "female nature") without any sources, usually based on anecdotal personal experience. I think this has a parallel (or justification) in feminism that I want to discuss.

“Wikipedia’s Politics of Exclusion: Gender, Epistemology, and Feminist Rhetorical (In)action” is an academic article written from a feminist perspective criticizing the standards of verifiability and objectivity on Wikipedia. From the linked write-up about the article:

Her primary criticism is that Wikipedia is an “exclusionary discourse community” that “privileges patriarchal methodologies and epistemologies” over “feminist ways of knowing and writing”, namely “personal narratives” (“[m]any feminists thus have advocated narrative as an especially powerful way of knowing”) and “lived experiences” (“feminism, as a political movement and as a philosophy, arose from women’s lived experiences”).

Basically she's critical of the fact that people have to provide sources when editing Wikipedia, and she wishes that women's (first-hand) "lived experiences" and "personal narratives" could be used as valid sources of knowledge for an encyclopedia. The emphasis on the validity of women's "lived experiences" is something I see a lot from many feminists. Is it just me, or doesn't this parallel the TRP approach? And if someone considers this to be valid for feminism, it would be valid for TRP presumably?

Setting aside the fact that she specifically says that women's perspectives should be privileged, which rules out the validity of men's lived experiences.

Her point isn’t just in favour of subjectivity though, it’s about subjectivity with a preference for the voices of women and feminists. Her statement that “our varied (gendered) experiences and embodiment shape how and what we know” was followed by “and women’s embodiment specifically affords them a different, privileged understanding of patriarchal systems”. She groups feminists and women together in this point: “feminist scholars have long contested the common distinction between ‘objective’ knowledge and subjective knowledge derived from the embodied positions of women and feminists”.