Where men are telling each other how terrible at being feminists women are
A forthright response to the no-platforming and demonization of Germaine Greer:
I made the mistake of checking my FB. Which is all “ooh that evil Germaine Greer!”
There’s a whole fucking thread where men are telling each other how terrible at being feminists women are. Seriously what is this shit?
I’ve seen that thread! Or one just like it – the chances are there are many of them. It takes more than one Facebook thread for men to tell each other how terrible at being feminists women are – and to complain about how ugly and old and ugly feminist women like Greer are. The one I saw was at Pink News, and it’s foul.
I disagree with Greer about some things. The day I say she’s not a feminist is the day you need to book me in for a lobotomy because I’ve obviously seriously fucking lost it. The woman who’s written the kind of vital and compelling work for the movement she has isn’t a feminist? As judged by wee boys chatting shite on Facebook?
And again the same argument, “but she says transwomen aren’t women so she can’t be a feminist!” No. They are not. They are transwomen, and that’s not a bad thing (why would it be?) but born women they are not. Also, this is not a criterion for being a feminist, as feminists disagree on this issue.
Yes but the ones who disagree with the Established Truth (of today) are the Evil branch of feminists, and Evil feminists can’t really be feminists, so it is a criterion, if you look at it the right way.
You’d be lost without the 20-something cis male bloggers to tell you how to be feminist. Admit it.
Chris Clarked @#1:
I’d also be lost without 20-something cis males shouting at me to “go home to your husband” when I was out taking my evening walk. Without that, I might forget to go home, or I might go to the wrong home, the one where my husband isn’t.
Or I might accidentally go to work and take a job one of them will need someday (though I doubt the type of males that yell to me from huge pickup trucks are likely to be professors of Environmental Science at the local college. Especially since I hold that job, and they can’t get it because I “took it away” from them.