*tears out hair* I don't want to flame you, honey, but you just KEEP saying stuff like that. Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. And the more people bitch that the patriarchy isn't a problem anymore the more pissed off I get. There is male privilege, there is inequality, and the more chickenshit women back away from "feminism" because of stereotypes advertised by other women who don't know what the shit they're talking about the worse it's going to get.
Every time a woman buys into the notion of feminism as the province of hairy-legged angry lesbians, she buys into a notion men have succeeding in spreading, propagating the idea of feminism as something to be ashamed of. Relatedly, there's nothing wrong with being angry about injustice; women just aren't supposed to get angry. Well fuck that: if I want to be pissed off and confrontational I will be, and it shouldn't reflect on me as a woman.
For a more coherent discussion of this, I highly recommend this essay: In Defense of Bitterness (http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2006/01/in-defense-of-bitterness.html).
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Every time a woman buys into the notion of feminism as the province of hairy-legged angry lesbians, she buys into a notion men have succeeding in spreading, propagating the idea of feminism as something to be ashamed of. Relatedly, there's nothing wrong with being angry about injustice; women just aren't supposed to get angry. Well fuck that: if I want to be pissed off and confrontational I will be, and it shouldn't reflect on me as a woman.
For a more coherent discussion of this, I highly recommend this essay: In Defense of Bitterness (http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2006/01/in-defense-of-bitterness.html).