Also, because feminism has only a lose set of “principles” or concerns and hardly any widespread ethical approach to praxis, it is that known abusers can claim to be “feminists” and decide that they can speak on behalf of feminism and we have absolutely no tools to unequivocally say No, you do not belong. For all our talks and analysis of consent, we cannot ever refuse to consent to have some people be part of our movement.

Considering there isn’t even consensus on whether feminism is a political movement or a philosophy (or a mix of both), I suppose this is to be expected. However, we have also failed to develop safeguards and protections for this movement/philosophy/cross. And that’s probably at the root of several failures within feminism itself.

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