Flavia Dzodan, the feminist writer who coined the call to arms ‘my feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit’, tweeted: “[A]re we now suddenly forgetting the long history of Imperial interventions on the bodies of Women of Color with forced sterilization?” As the discussion of feminism and intersectionality has hotted up in the past year, it’s a very good question indeed. How the editors respond to the issue could very well be the thing that makes or breaks the magazine’s credibility.
Breaking news: Feminist Times offends feminists on day 1 – Dr Brooke Magnanti – Telegraph
I don’t know how they will respond in the future, but so far, their response has been to metaphorically cover their ears and go “nah nah nah nah”. The piece that started this new round of nonsense has now been removed and replaced with a standard issued fauxpology. It reads, in part:
We sought some of our readers’ most shocking thoughts and feelings that clash with their feminist politics, to highlight controversial but personal inner battles between deeply held feminist principles and reactive emotions based on an intimate experience.
Again, we are subjected to rhetoric and emotional violence in the name of “discussion”. Our integrity and agency now subjected to “debate” because these “feminists” operate under the assumption that all ideas are worth publishing. I call into question an editorial board that doesn’t place feminist ethics above this “discussion” nonsense. I’ll repeat myself in case I wasn’t clear the first time:
no “freedom of opinion” nonsense can ever be placed above the well being of women.
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