In a comment by adriana at Stephanie’s.
One interesting fact about this whole affair of rejection of feminism or the word feminism, is that a bunch of atheists (I don’t know how many, but they sure are vocal) think Western women, and especially atheist women in secular democracies, have nothing to complain about. Equality has been reached, according to those people, and misogyny eradicated. Therefore, any complaints of unequal treatment or misogyny are signs of bitchiness, basically.
I hadn’t thought of that before. That’s illuminating.
It certainly seems to fit well with “Dear Muslima” and all the subseqent bullshit that has amounted to amplification of ”Dear Muslima” – so much amplification that we all feel a bit deaf.
Yeah, we’re just being bitchy when we object to being called bitches and cunts. We’re being bitchy, because hey, Nancy Pelosi, and SUVs, and Real Housewives of New Jersey, and bikini waxes, and slate countertops, and Sex and the City, and Greek yogurt, and contraception. What more do we want?
Biatches.