Abigail Shrier is cheering on Bruce Jenner for California Governor (and uses female pronouns for him) - talk about mixed messages...

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[–]one1won 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

An opposing view to user needmorecoffee:

Scream it from the rooftops - The House Is On Fire!! This Is Not A Drill. Women's safety, dignity, and personhood are at stake.

Screw being "nice" or "empathetic"! There's a place for rage in advocacy, and shutting up or shutting down women capable of channeling their rage is misogynistic. Well behaved women seldom make history!

A single focus strategy is ineffective. 2nd wave feminists didn't accomplish so many gains by solely using "politically correct" speech. Fuck being empathetic! Dudes screech when they believe they're being stomped on - if women don't get nasty, dudes assume women consent/agree. Well, I fucking don't! Sometimes, you have to "speak their language" to be understood.

I may not always agree with an individual woman's position/outlook on issues, I DO vehemently defend her right to her opinions and approach. Even user's needmorecoffee - for the userself, but not any behavior-policing.

[–]BEB[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I read this post before I read needmorecoffee's reply to me. My thoughts:

Women's collective rage has fueled a lot of change. And sometimes, since so many of us are trained from birth to be kind, and to not speak out, sometimes an angry, but well-spoken, woman shocks men, and women with internalized misogyny, into listening.

I also think that many women are silently seething, or at least becoming very concerned, about this issue as it becomes apparent that the Gender Mob has launched a War on Women, so when one of us harpies (and I don't mind being called a harpy) start banging the drums, it emboldens other women to also speak out.

But also, I remember the tail-end of Second Wave feminism, and from my young perspective, it was a very broad movement - women of every color and socio-economic class had just had it with our oppression. So 2nd Wave feminism was a collective scream, but it wouldn't have been possible without the women who were willing to risk everything by starting their own screaming first.