Tales of an Angry Young Man: Well, this is frustrating...
I was taking a few stabs in the dark about what a person on OKCupid meant by being interested in “food politics” since it seems like it could be a whole bunch of different things. I asked, giving a few ideas of what I think it meant. This person did view my profile so they did get the message but…
It’s fine. I get angry (as a feminist) when people say they’re feminists on OKC, because my brain instantly wants to ask:
The kind that hates me?
The kind that hated me before I got estrogen?
The kind that thinks women’s spaces should include trans men?
The kind that erases men when they’re raped?
The kind that erases women who rape?
The kind that sees survival coal-mining as okie-dokie but survival sex as the worst evil evar and yet has never proposed a Guaranteed Annual Income?
The kind that shrugs off men who die in the workplace, or go to jail longer for the same crime?
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Or the cool kind, like me?
(Source: write-on-red)
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valeriekeefe reblogged this from write-on-red and added:
I absolutely hate those XtY acronyms. There’s no magical gate you pass through in terms of transition that causes a...
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write-on-red reblogged this from valeriekeefe and added:
I try not to jump to conclusions and generally ask (when it comes to feminism) “what feminist...
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