I hear you. I'm not going to distance myself from feminism, but I'm going to denounce and distance myself from feminists I think are behaving abominably and refusing to check their white privilege and examine themselves.
One reason I'm not comfortable distancing from feminism is that I don't think, and actually have never thought, that Amanda Marcotte speaks for feminism, nor do I feel prepared to cede her the field. Part of that is maybe because until very recently most of my feminism was not an online thing, but a real life thing.
It makes me angry, v. angry, to have worked so hard to reclaim the word feminist as one of my feminist goals and have certain white feminists, not just amanda obviously, but have a portion of white feminists poison my pool with their refusal to be even a might self reflexive.
I left a lengthy comment over at Feministe about this late last night. I plan to post on it this weekend, but I have to get some actual, you know, work done today. (I spent yesterday getting caught up on what happened).
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Date: 2008-04-25 11:46 am (UTC)One reason I'm not comfortable distancing from feminism is that I don't think, and actually have never thought, that Amanda Marcotte speaks for feminism, nor do I feel prepared to cede her the field. Part of that is maybe because until very recently most of my feminism was not an online thing, but a real life thing.
It makes me angry, v. angry, to have worked so hard to reclaim the word feminist as one of my feminist goals and have certain white feminists, not just amanda obviously, but have a portion of white feminists poison my pool with their refusal to be even a might self reflexive.
I left a lengthy comment over at Feministe about this late last night. I plan to post on it this weekend, but I have to get some actual, you know, work done today. (I spent yesterday getting caught up on what happened).