The REAL feminists
Sally Hines is still hating on feminists while claiming to be a feminist.
She starts by reminiscing about her involvement in feminism in her teens and twenties.
But now, she goes on to say, all they have to do is say “I’m a woman” and they’re given the microphone to call feminist women misogynist names…hahaha just kidding. Of course she goes on to say the opposite of that.
She has a PhD in DARVO.
“A man who wanted to be a
feminist allywoman could usefully run the crèche, wash the pots, write the Xmas cards . But quietly and without expecting praise. Useful possibly. Needed never. Given the megaphone, impossible.”How things have changed.
I commented, and my response needed two posts.
Before I could post the second part–it was a matter of seconds–I was blocked.
I guess that’s her one talent – lightning-fast blocking.
DARVO reminds of the sort of appropriation Naomi Klein has recently written about.
“… It’s a playbook, one that William Calliston and Quinn Slobodian, both scholars of European politics, have termed political “diagonalism”. It’s a new political formation that appropriates from the left, but always leans hard right.
This pattern is so rampant: on the one hand, appropriation and trivializations of precious language and symbols to fight real state terror and coverups–on the other hand, aggressive attacks on those very movements.
The dynamic is important to understand. So I started listening to Steve Bannon rather religiously, especially when my doppelganger [Naomi Wolf] was on. And I was struck, over and over again, by the way he took issues that had previously been the political territory of the left, absorbed them and then mixed them up with all kinds of very dangerous ideas. To put it bluntly, he was creating a kind of twisted doppelganger of the left. With tech fears, he has identified a neglected issue with cross-partisan appeal.”
Naomi Klein “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World”
Does the “identity” issue share some characteristics of the “doppelganger” issue?
Yes, I think it does. Excellent illustration.