Posts by Megan Wegan
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Sally, I am sorry if you've been caused offence. What we've been trying to do is explain to you why _we're_ offended, and tease out whether you actually intended to cause that offence. As Emma says, it's not your views.
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Women are accepting a new denigrating norm that makes Barbie look self-actualised. Respect for women is coasting downhill for the entire generation behind me - and it's damned depressing.
OH MY GOD. I am cured. I am throwing out allof my dresses right now. </tui>
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to ,
So can I.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Don't you have enough issues in Berhampore, without roaming bison?
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Lilith __,
I still think you should get a pony, but just cos I like you.
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I’m not sure where my Honours essay on JS Mill fits into that continuum.
Nor my Masters in political science.
Sally. I challenge you to find anywhere I have focussed anger on you, or any other feminist. Challenged yes, vehemently disagreed with, sure. But anger? No.
On the other hand, you've implied I call myself a feminist when it is convenient, you have agreed with other women who called me a slut, and you've suggested that I am unthinking in my feminism.
You've also implied that I am not an activist. That my feminism is waffly crap, and I don't 'do anything'. If you'd like to have a conversation of the work I try to do for less privileged women, I am happy to email you.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to BenWilson,
Give me a word for “males who believe in some selection of feminist principles”, and I’ll happily use it.
Yeah, at the risk of repeating myself, I have a word. Feminist.
And at the risk of repeating myself again (because I have linked to it all over the internet), I recommend this.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to sally jones,
But in terms of the present discussion I would draw a rather thick line between participating in a wet T-shirt competition and dancing as though no-one is watching you – a million miles from any damn pole. One is a cheap and tacky stunt that will turn some men on whether the participant intends to or not, the other is an act of freedom and self-expression that is more likely to intimidate men than turn them on.
What you fail to understand, Sally, is that we don’t care about “turning men on”. We’re about encouraging women to make choices for themselves and that make them feel good. If that involves a wet tshirt competition, so be it. Women’s lives don’t have to revolve around men, and their reactions.
Emma, if you are tired of the endless argument that comes back to the same place I can assure you that those, like Greer, and little old me – to a much lesser extent, no doubt – who have devoted a good part of their lives to exposing and challenging the patriarchal shaming of Eve (E-T-C!), are so much more tired of the feminist-bashing that goes on and on and on in every sphere of life and contributes directly to the ongoing trivialisation of the F-word as man-hating dogma.
Right. And yet you are completely unhappy to dismiss other self identified feminists as “lifestyle” and imply that we are uneducated and unthinking. Cool.
[ETA: Completely HAPPY, I mean.]]
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to sally jones,
Because Emma is not here, immediately, here is the direct question.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Emma Hart,
sparkle-pony.
I have never been called that! I want to be.