a fun feminist rant for you
asking a feminist to quickly summarize everything they’ve ever said on the topic of feminism because you’re “thinking of becoming a feminist” is belittling and entitled.
it undermines the fact that I deliberately publish my thoughts on social media to provide informed insight into my perspectives on feminism on a platform that encourages informed, intelligent discussion.
not to mention it’s as offensively reductionist as the ‘meninists’ who comment ‘NAME ONE SINGLE RIGHT MEN HAVE THAT WOMEN DONT!!!1’ ignoring the fact that ten seconds of research would demonstrate that the need for feminism is way beyond government enforced laws and regulations and extends to a much broader concept of cultural treatment and perception based on a history of trivializing and marginalizing the strength and capabilities of women and girls.
you have to put in the leg work of curiosity-based learning and come back to me with informed, research based inquiries.
this question is especially insulting if you retort with a defensive comment that could basically translate to ‘your unwillingness to reduce 25 years of experience to a few sentences shows that you’re not a true feminist, and I will therefore be joining the anti-feminist club because you were sort of rude to me when I ask a broad strokes question that I was too lazy to realize you have answered 200+ times before.’
I DO want to help educate people on the need for feminism in our current culture. That’s literally why I publish my thoughts on Instagram, Twitter, and tumblr on a DAILY BASIS.
I DO want to have important and intelligent conversations about new perspectives in feminism and the evolution of the movement in the 21st century.
I DO want feminism to feel like a club that everyone is invited to, provided we check our privileges at the door and understand whose voices are most relevant in which discussions.
What I DON’T want is to be insulted, belittled, or otherwise harassed for not dropping whatever I’m doing to regurgitate opinions I’ve expressed hundreds of times to someone who feels entitled to a synopsis of my life’s passion without having done a shred of personal investigation.
Like for fucks sake you are asking me these questions on AN INTERNET MACHINE! Literally a world of knowledge at your actual fingertips.
would you ask JK Rowling ‘I’m thinking of becoming a Harry Potter fan, what are the books about?’
would you ask a mechanic 'I’m thinking of building a car from scratch, how do you do it?’
would you ask MLK 'I heard you had a dream, what was it?’
(and if you would- I guess you have bigger entitlement issues than I give you credit for)
I’m not saying this to sound rude, I’m saying this because you have an incredible opportunity to become involved in a community of love, support, equality, and empowerment, and I don’t want to take that away from you by reducing the meaning of this community to a paragraph or two in the comments section on a blog post somewhere.
I appreciate your interest in something that is so dear to me, and I hope you understand that I’m very excited for the informed, intelligent discussions that we will have on the topic of feminism in the future.
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