Comments on: “I’m not a feminist, but. . . “

By: Lexia

Lexia — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:28:54 +0000

“I’m not a feminist, but…I AM an opportunist and a coward”

Fixed it.

For all those fellow travellers who want that oh so soothing feeling of equality but know when to duck.

By: Finisterre

Finisterre — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:31:24 +0000

If any more reasons were needed NOT to say ‘I’m not a feminist, but…’, it’s the chumps I constantly encounter on the internet, telling me that ‘most women’* think feminism is ‘outdated’ or ‘irrelevant’. ARRRRRGGGHHHH. Not this one.

* By which they mean, of course, ‘All the women I know. No, I haven’t asked them. But *I* think so, and I am the Default Human, so what other view could they possibly hold?’.

By: Spencer Koelle

Spencer Koelle — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:13:50 +0000

I AM a feminist.

I have a penis, a Y chromosome, and a male gender identity.

I’m trying to overcome the bogeyman of the “scary straw feminist” that our reactionary elements have puffed up, like the giant fear-puppet of Stephen Colbert.

I hope it works.

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A More Zest(ra)-y Sex Life for Women? « Kittywampus — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:33:13 +0000

[...] stations willing to run their ads, even as Viagra ads are literally driving in circles around us. Historiann took the article to task for its casual disavowal of feminism, and I’ve got nothin’ to add to her critique except a vigorous nod of approval. Figleaf [...]

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:25:57 +0000

You forgot that we all burned our bras….along with being humorless, ugly, shrill, hairy legged man-haters.

Back in the dark ages, when I was in college, I was going around canvassing for the Women’s Center (c. mid-1970s) and even then there was the “I want to be equal, but I want my boyfriend to hold the door for me” routine. Sigh. Ze who gets to the door first holds it for the person who follows. What’s so hard about that?

By: Digger

Digger — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:23:07 +0000

I hear you, H’Ann. I read these all as framings of “I don’t want you to think I’m X [a racist, a feminist, a homophobe], but now I’ll say something that clearly indicates I am X.” As though just saying something isn’t so, makes it not so… wait. That’s politics these days.

“Coming “out” as feminists is the only way to fight the straw woman “scary feminist.”” Agreed!

By: Fratguy

Fratguy — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:30:47 +0000

“She says I am not a feminiiiiist…..F@CK YOU”
Courtney Love off of “Live Through This”

My personal favorite response to said distancing and disavowment.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:04:05 +0000

Other than that, I agree with your argument.

Huh? Was that for me, for Mary Winter, or for another commenter?

By: Sonya

Sonya — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:46:00 +0000

Well, I am a feminist and don’t have a problem announcing it to the world. Believing 1/2 of humanity is entitled to the same rights as the other half does not a bad person make. Other than that, I agree with your argument.

By: Tenured Radical

Tenured Radical — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:45:41 +0000

Well, and actually, it would be so easy to be a feminist on FB (just click “Like”!) and it’s so hard to be a feminist in the world. So I’m sticking to the world. And the interwebz.