I’ve had to start differentiating between feminism – good honest feminism in all its manifestations from Luce Irigaray, to Greenham Common, to Andrea Dworkin and even (although the Lord knows, she’s not to my taste) Camille Paglia – and what I’ve started calling the Online Wimmin Mob. The latter is meant to sound insulting. Borderline misogynist if you like, and there’s a reason for that: the Online Wimmin Mob don’t seem to like feminism. There’s not much evidence that they like women very much. Perhaps this is the reason that they don’t want you to be a feminist either

There’s no point in online feminism if it’s an exclusive, Mean Girls club

Yes, yes New Stateman, “good honest feminism” = all White feminism from the 70’s and 80s. I’m going to take your word for it, also considering I am part of this Online Wimmin Mob that tried to get you to apologize (LOL of course you didn’t) when your publication plagiarized my work without so much of an acknowledgement. Because, apparently, that’s “good” feminism, and the rest of us are part of the mob…


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