I'm glad to say I've never met that attitude among women. Among men...I've heard 'feminist' used as a dirty word. But *smirk* never when they knew I was around. And not often at that, though I think that's more due to the PC Police than actual sensibility. I know they're just scared little pissants, so I normally just give them a Look and leave it at that.
I sort of understand where this attitude could be coming from. The extremists are always the ones to grab the headlines (just look at the news...) Then again, some of these extreme practices were what got us the vote. I don't approve of going overboard, especially nowadays when there are soooo many ways to protest without getting insensitive, violent and vicious in our turn (I'm sorry, 10000 years of oppression does not justify us doing it to them now). Live and let live, and just ignore the idiots, ladies; you'll live longer and happier lives.
That being said, the day some government tries to take away my right to vote - or tries to call the shots on what I can do with my body - and I've run out of reasonable means to protest...Emma Goldman, Emily Pankhurst, give me the strength to be one of those who starves themselves in protest and breaks the fucking windows.
(I like your four-point plan, though I wonder if those women would miss the right to vote; with that mentality, I bet they're part of the 50%+ of the population who don't exert it).
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Date: 5 Aug 2005 01:15 am (UTC)I sort of understand where this attitude could be coming from. The extremists are always the ones to grab the headlines (just look at the news...) Then again, some of these extreme practices were what got us the vote. I don't approve of going overboard, especially nowadays when there are soooo many ways to protest without getting insensitive, violent and vicious in our turn (I'm sorry, 10000 years of oppression does not justify us doing it to them now). Live and let live, and just ignore the idiots, ladies; you'll live longer and happier lives.
That being said, the day some government tries to take away my right to vote - or tries to call the shots on what I can do with my body - and I've run out of reasonable means to protest...Emma Goldman, Emily Pankhurst, give me the strength to be one of those who starves themselves in protest and breaks the fucking windows.
(I like your four-point plan, though I wonder if those women would miss the right to vote; with that mentality, I bet they're part of the 50%+ of the population who don't exert it).