One of the reasons why I am not a feminist is because, as a movement, feminism seems to be more concerned with either (a) being ineffectual but demanding great PR for nonachievements, or (b) ritually shooting itself in the foot and blaming it all on the Patriarchy.
I never saw the point in associating myself with the ineffectual, the incompetent, or the histrionic. Early 20th-century suffragettes were pretty badass and I'd happily hang out with them, but the movement's been perpetually on the brink of self-parody ever since the late '80s, IMO.
This response to Jim Frenkel is just one more nail in the coffin. Wiscon has no idea what they're doing, but by God, they're doing something, and they demand that whatever they're doing be taken seriously as the decisive act that it is!
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One of the reasons why I am not a feminist is because, as a movement, feminism seems to be more concerned with either (a) being ineffectual but demanding great PR for nonachievements, or (b) ritually shooting itself in the foot and blaming it all on the Patriarchy.
I never saw the point in associating myself with the ineffectual, the incompetent, or the histrionic. Early 20th-century suffragettes were pretty badass and I'd happily hang out with them, but the movement's been perpetually on the brink of self-parody ever since the late '80s, IMO.
This response to Jim Frenkel is just one more nail in the coffin. Wiscon has no idea what they're doing, but by God, they're doing something, and they demand that whatever they're doing be taken seriously as the decisive act that it is!