{"id":43827,"date":"2014-07-24T19:17:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T01:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/24\/feminists-and-anti-feminists.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:27:41","slug":"feminists-and-anti-feminists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/24\/feminists-and-anti-feminists.html","title":{"rendered":"Feminists and Anti-Feminists"},"content":{"rendered":"
I consider myself a feminist, in that I believe in equal legal and social treatment of women and men. \u00a0I don't believe all men are rapists (I'm pretty sure I'm not), I am not advocating for the Matriarchy (because that's sort of the opposite of what feminism means to me), and I refuse to spell "woman" or "women" with a "y" (because that's dumb). \u00a0<\/p>\n

Declining to be a feminist because, as with all movements, there are some extremists who use the label, is like declining to be a Christian because of the Westboro Baptists are hateful idjits, or declining to be an atheist because Bill Maher is an anti-vaxxer, or declining to be — well, you get the idea. \u00a0There are bad apples in every barrel, especially when human beings are concerned.<\/p>\n

Or, as the Bloggess puts it (much more entertainingly than I) …<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This. So so this.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Women Who are Ambivalent about Women Against Women Against Feminism | The Bloggess<\/a>
\n So…yeah. Right now there’s a lot of talk about a tumblr called WomenAgainstFeminism. It’s just pictures of some women holding up handwritten signs entitled \u201cI don’t need feminism because…\u201d Some of the reasons they give for not needing feminism almost seem like a parody (\u201cHow the fuck am I …\n <\/p>\n

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I consider myself a feminist, in that I believe in equal legal and social treatment of women and men. \u00a0I don't believe all men are rapists (I'm pretty sure I'm not), I am not advocating for the Matriarchy (because that's sort of the opposite of what feminism means to me), and I refuse to spell … Continue reading “Feminists and Anti-Feminists”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,71,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-religion-me","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138530,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/the-feminist-ideal.html","url_meta":{"origin":43827,"position":0},"title":"The Feminist Ideal","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Apr-19 9:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Tucker Carlson accuses Chris Hayes of being a feminist who wears glasses. 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