I wrote Think Like a Feminist, in part, because I recognize that feminism has a PR problem. If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say, “I’m not a feminist, but . . .” and then go on to say all sorts of explicitly feminist things, I could close the wage gap single-handedly. Half the people I meet think feminists are scary man-hating harpies who just need to get laid.
The other half think feminism amounts to vacuously affirming every choice a woman makes on no other grounds than that someone with two X chromosomes is pulling the trigger. Neither of these misconceptions accurately represents the movement, but it’s illustrative to consider why the caricatures of the Girl Power Feminist and the Angry Feminist get so much cultural uptake. Both, I argue, defang feminism of its radical potential
Guiltily half-raises hand I don’t think feminism means this, but I’m far too quick to dismiss some feminism as this. Despite my real-world experience being the opposite. It does nobody any...
The other half think feminism amounts to vacuously affirming every choice a woman makes on no other grounds than that someone with two X chromosomes is pulling the trigger.
Guiltily half-raises hand
I don’t think feminism means this, but I’m far too quick to dismiss some feminism as this. Despite my real-world experience being the opposite. It does nobody any favours, especially me.
Guiltily half-raises hand
I don’t think feminism means this, but I’m far too quick to dismiss some feminism as this. Despite my real-world experience being the opposite. It does nobody any favours, especially me.