01:38"It is unfair to ask a woman to leave aside her personal experience and discuss feminist issues in the abstract. You are discussing the stuff of her life. Asking her to “not make it personal” is to ask her to wrench her womanhood from her personhood. Don’t play Devil’s advocate. Seriously. Just don’t." — Shakesville: I Am Not a Political Football (via veruca-assault)
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14:15
Sigh. It is a shame that I couldn’t talk about this with the attendees of the session at NUS LGBT conference. There were people there who were genuinely interested in and supportive of LGBT women fighting sexism both in and outside our movement.
Sadly, the discussion got derailed by attendees…
00:43"Femme is, in part, about femme friendships. Femmes are people who see another feminine person and purposefully ignore the culturally prescribed girl hate and learn to say, ”God, you are beautiful and I want to be your friend,” rather than, “She’s so much prettier than me, I hate her.” My femme friendships are a mutual celebration of our brilliance, beauty, strength, power, heart and soul. Ultimately feminist, we heal through loving each other in a world that teaches us to mistrust each other." — Melissa Heckman, Body Image: I’m a Femme
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22:45
So I read this awful piece of psuedo-feminist vitriol in The London Student this week, which is the University of London’s student newspaper. I couldn’t let it pass without having a say on the matter, so here’s my response, along with a copy of the original article, which is quoted below:
