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• Sekino commented on Slate to Roll out Double X Blog for Chicks
  I'm not naming any names, but some of the rhetoric here is fancy talk for 'bitch'. I learned a lesson today: if you italicize the word "feminist," it becomes a synonym for "bitch"! I'm disappointed with the sarcasm. I felt my question was earnest and in no way meant as an insult or personal attack. I simply pointed out my own experiences and concerns vis a vis the various definitions of feminism. But I should know better than to wander into such a minefield....
• Antinous / Moderator commented on Slate to Roll out Double X Blog for Chicks
  Successful movements are always broad-based. It might be opportunist appeasers who get the credit at the end, but it's the radicals who get the ball rolling. You should meet some of the drag queens who rioted at Stonewall. You would be horrified by them, but they laid the foundation for even having a discussion about gay marriage. Harsh feminists do what they have to do. And they don't all live in places where basic women's rights can be taken for granted (if you squint hard.) We should not eat our elders. We only get to fight with words because they...
• Takuan commented on Slate to Roll out Double X Blog for Chicks
  I must confess though...a certain curiosity thing... this "gender"......
• Lauren O commented on Slate to Roll out Double X Blog for Chicks
  I'm sorry, Sekino, I guess I didn't realize you were being so earnest. You wrote that, "Many women are turned off by the often very vocal feminists who promote fear, resent and hatred against all men, make blanket statements about both genders, seek obvious double-standards and regard women who disagree as traitors." I spend a lot of time reading a lot of different feminist authors and talking with a lot of different feminists. I have seen people come at feminism from seven jillion angles, but none of them were the ones you described. I assumed that since you were basically...
• Lauren O commented on Slate to Roll out Double X Blog for Chicks
  I guess to put it another way, Sekino, a lot of people genuinely perceive a lot of feminists as man-haters. In reality, precious few feminists are. Most of the time I hear someone describing feminists as "promot[ing] fear, resent[ment] and hatred against all men," it's because they either don't really understand what the feminists are saying or because they have a kneejerk reaction to any criticism of men's roles in society....