Why, despite my misgivings I am still a "feminist"

[ineffabelle]

P: Well, I guess she must have been raped repeatedly or something to have such a demoniacally negative opinion of the male sex. Fine, I'll die alone and the world will continue its descent down the toilet into chaos. Just lovely.
A: The "male sex" (a concept that needs deconstructing in a big way, but we'll take it at conventional value) has not been very worthwhile except as a sperm donor, until very recently.
Morally there's no justification for the way they have behaved vis a vis the "not male sex" historically.
You can call for a truce, but you certainly can't ask for acceptance of the past behaviors as "proper".
(A is me, btw)
P: Fuck you too, sugarplum.

Comments

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get really turned off to some feminists' approach to trans issues and to males in general...and then I read exchanges like yours above, or see hateful ad campaigns like Bacardi's here (http://jezebel.com/5296935/bacardi-ad-uses-misogyny-to-sell-alcohol-to-women), and I don't know what to call myself except feminist, because this shit is uncalled for.