I talked a little bit about being a feminist in my last article (and I’ve also talked about it here and here) but I want to use this space to dedicate a bit more time to hashing it out. Mostly responding directly to an article that a long-time supporter of the site shared with me…
I’m something of a feminist and so when I saw that Ali Wong’s stand up special on Netflix openly declared she was going to explain why feminism was “terrible”, I eye-rolled. Someone who has to make a big deal out of general ideological statements in their stand up special would probably come off to me…
We’ve discussed feminism a few times now (see here and here) and in keeping with that theme let’s talk about a particular troublesome branch of feminism. The liberal (or mainstream) forms of feminism. To take a popular version of a liberal feminist argument involving work: we should lean in to work instead of kicking back.…