| ginmar ( @ 2006-06-16 17:25:00 |
Oh, for fuck's sake
Take someone who's engaged in 'bad feministing' by boasting about all the times she's tilted with strawfeminists, and add a piously-expressed concern that such trasntalking might hurt the movement---trashtalking that she herself engages in. What do you call this shit?
You know, I really don't give a fuck if somebody told you not to shave your legs. What I care about is you're so goddamed stupid or evil as to blame this on feminism in general, and have been doing so loudly for quite some time. The real point here is that the trashtalking is coming from women who define feminism as the enemy when they haven't a fucking clue about its principles. The shit they say invariably dovetails nicely with exactly the shit that anti-feminists say, but these women making the complaints about legshaving, makeup-wearing, whatever claim to be feminists solely for the purposes, one suspects, of bashing real feminists. The feminists they describe, for example, sound an awful lot like the liberals that Ann Coulter talks about----you know, the babyhating, welfare-loving, draft-dodging, pork-loving, granola-munching, 'fragrant' hippies that are so stupid they appear only in front of the conservatives who bash liberals. How conveniant!
How fucking stupid.
The real issue here isn't the strawfeminist: it's the fact that these twits seem to think that if they have one bad expereince with a feminist---which I highly doubt----then they get to damn all feminists. I mean, if I see somebody acting and sounding like Rush Limbaugh talking about about 'feminazis' am I supposed to take them any more seriously when they say the exact same thing, except they piously claim the feminist label for themselves?
"Oh, I'm a bad feminist! *giggle* I shave my legs and wear makeup and I'm submissive to my husband and the real issue is that feminists just don't give a fuck." If you're such a fucking feminist, why don't you bitch about something that actually matters, exists, and causes harm to other women. It's a really individual issue you've got going on there, babe. As long as we're trading mythical anecdotes, here's my experience of feminists and feminists: some great people, some good people, some annoying people, some plenty irritating individuals, who nevertheless don't give much of a fuck about leg shaving, makeup-wearing, whatever, because while you're going on and on about those evil feminists real women are dying in childbirth, being raped, being imprisoned and abused just because they're women and you don't give a fuck because you have feminists to bitch about. Go shave your goddamned legs, wear your fucking makeup or not, whatever. Accepting that feminists are human means accepting, well, that they're human. If you meet one alleged fairy feminist who you claim shits on your pillow and hate them all from that day forward because you think they're all alike, the issue isn't feminism but your eagerness to hate it.
Take someone who's engaged in 'bad feministing' by boasting about all the times she's tilted with strawfeminists, and add a piously-expressed concern that such trasntalking might hurt the movement---trashtalking that she herself engages in. What do you call this shit?
I sometimes read complaints that women who say they were told they can’t be a feminist because of X (shaving legs, wearing makeup, whatever) are blaming strawfeminists, but how does this kind of trashtalking help the movement?
You know, I really don't give a fuck if somebody told you not to shave your legs. What I care about is you're so goddamed stupid or evil as to blame this on feminism in general, and have been doing so loudly for quite some time. The real point here is that the trashtalking is coming from women who define feminism as the enemy when they haven't a fucking clue about its principles. The shit they say invariably dovetails nicely with exactly the shit that anti-feminists say, but these women making the complaints about legshaving, makeup-wearing, whatever claim to be feminists solely for the purposes, one suspects, of bashing real feminists. The feminists they describe, for example, sound an awful lot like the liberals that Ann Coulter talks about----you know, the babyhating, welfare-loving, draft-dodging, pork-loving, granola-munching, 'fragrant' hippies that are so stupid they appear only in front of the conservatives who bash liberals. How conveniant!
How fucking stupid.
The real issue here isn't the strawfeminist: it's the fact that these twits seem to think that if they have one bad expereince with a feminist---which I highly doubt----then they get to damn all feminists. I mean, if I see somebody acting and sounding like Rush Limbaugh talking about about 'feminazis' am I supposed to take them any more seriously when they say the exact same thing, except they piously claim the feminist label for themselves?
"Oh, I'm a bad feminist! *giggle* I shave my legs and wear makeup and I'm submissive to my husband and the real issue is that feminists just don't give a fuck." If you're such a fucking feminist, why don't you bitch about something that actually matters, exists, and causes harm to other women. It's a really individual issue you've got going on there, babe. As long as we're trading mythical anecdotes, here's my experience of feminists and feminists: some great people, some good people, some annoying people, some plenty irritating individuals, who nevertheless don't give much of a fuck about leg shaving, makeup-wearing, whatever, because while you're going on and on about those evil feminists real women are dying in childbirth, being raped, being imprisoned and abused just because they're women and you don't give a fuck because you have feminists to bitch about. Go shave your goddamned legs, wear your fucking makeup or not, whatever. Accepting that feminists are human means accepting, well, that they're human. If you meet one alleged fairy feminist who you claim shits on your pillow and hate them all from that day forward because you think they're all alike, the issue isn't feminism but your eagerness to hate it.