Wednesday, December 12, 2012
If I don't like it, then it's not feminist
This probably counters what I wrote yesterday, but Mikipedia wrote something on her blog that I really want to address here, too. She says, "when women do things you don’t like, they are doing it for men, someone please give that school of feminism a name." While there's nothing wrong with pointing out the flaws in someone's argument, one of my biggest feminist pet-peeves is this idea that if you do something I don't like, or that is somehow "bad for feminism," it's only to win the approval of men. Wear bangs and like kittens? Well, of course it's only to prove how non-threatening you are. Like watching sports? Well, of course, it's only to prove how much of a "guy's girl" you can be. (I like kittens and baseball, so... huh?) Isn't being able to decide what kind of woman you want to be one the primary tenets of feminism?
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