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[–]MarkTwainiac[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Signatories include Gloria Steinem, Sarah Paulson, Wanda Sykes, Halle Berry, Melissa Etheridge, Tegan & Sara, Margaret Cho, Julianne Moore, Ashley Judd...

[–]BEB 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

IMO, Gloria Steinem has always been a self-promoting Pick Me. I saw her speak once and she lapped up the adulation of her young audience.

The rest are just F-ing idiots. I am not a violent person in any way, but if I saw any of them I would scream facts at them until they fled.

[–]MarkTwainiac[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I had a soul-crushing experience with her as a young woman in 1984. Then in the 1990s, she reached out to me for assistance with a book she was writing, totally forgetting or completely unaware that she'd done me wrong years before. She snubbed or actively stymied feminist journalists and writers of my generation coz, IMO, she saw us as threats who could potentially displace her and she wanted to rule the roost. Some sisterhood.

[–]BEB 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you ever feel up to talking about it, I would be interested in hearing what happened with Gloria Steinem. I'm not surprised that she snubbed or stymied younger feminists.

I was only around 16 when I heard Gloria Steinem speak and got a chance to talk to her for a few minutes. While she seemed very charismatic and almost glamorous, and I was very young and star-struck - I just got some kind of narcissistic vibe from her, like she was in it to be someone. Nothing I heard of her afterwards made me think otherwise because she seemed a bit of a star-F-er

It just struck me who Gloria Steinem reminded me of - Rachel Maddow. When I met Maddow she had that same narcissistic vibe and was also lapping up the adulation of the young people around her. Both seemed to love the sounds of their own voices, but I am just extrapolating from a few minutes spent talking to each, so it's probably not fair to judge them so harshly.

Although after this letter stunt, I think I was spot on about Steinem. Destroying everything feminists fought for in order to stay relevant - what a terrible person.