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In reply to the discussion: Yes, I am a Feminist. Deal. With. It. [View all]BainsBane
(53,035 posts)or your referring to my post as an attack on you. It doesn't address why you felt compelled to agree with a poster who denounced all "isms" as illegitimate. It doesn't address my point about how what one chooses to denounce or not denounce reflects one's priorities: Why, for example, you insisted I was personally accountable for a comment made by someone I had on ignore, while you can't bring yourself to condemn threats of death and rape against one of these women you consider unfit to be considered a true feminist.
It is not an unreasonable assumption that your points were about DUers since you have on a number of occasions made clear your hostility toward women who derivate from your definition of acceptable speech. Why you feel yourself entitled to act as arbiter of who is and isn't a real feminist escapes me, particularly since you have acknowledged discomfort with the term.
also identify strongly with the core feminist ideals, if you present them without the label. I identify as feminist and have all my life, and even I'm starting to wonder if it's too corrupted a label to save. The extremist movements and the publicity they have gotten have done us no favors.
"Librul media" at its finest.
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The point that people who use feminist as a pejorative and cast the movement in its worst light have an agenda that seeks to keep women from achieving equality seems lost on you. For some reason, you have decided the feminists you don't consider real feminists are a greater enemy than those who insist that it is white men who are exploited by women and people of color who have the nerve to imagine their concerns matter.
Given that you described my post as a personal "attack" and have on a number of occasions spoken very harshly about members I have never seen mention you, I can't help but question your claim that you have been told to shut up.