I suspect feminism, as a word, is too far gone for a lot of people, hence the big push to re-label. For scared men, feminism means angry women who hate them. For POC/LGBT, it means white middle-class women who don't include them.
Question, since this definitely is not my area of expertise: from a queer/WoC perspective, is the problem with the word feminist or with the persistent exclusion of those voices from feminist discourse? Would the word feminism be ok if feminism as a whole was truly inclusive?
"No. No. No! NO!! DO NOT LET THOSE PLANES MEET, FOR GOD H. JESUS CHRIST'S FUCKING SAKE!!!"
I had a couple of folks in Groupthink ask me about this, so I hope it's ok I re-post; I originally submitted it here. I have edited it to include the various theories that we've come up with as explanations (below the original story).
I was 13 years old babysitting for a 10 month old baby. I put him to bed no problem and go back into the living room to watch TV. It's maybe 7 pm, parents due back at 11. I'm pretty paranoid about sleeping babies so I go back every maybe 20-30 minutes to make sure the kid is still breathing. At around 9 I check on…
So you're saying I should write that the money went to a charitable cause because some rando burner commenter says that that's "generally" what's behind this stuff?
I dunno, man. Maybe so. I just imagine having to get out of bed every day and put on the Guy Fieri costume and go out there and do the Guy Fieri routine ... every fucking day ... and it just seems like it would be depressing as shit. Maybe I just need to believe that so that I can be comforted by the notion that…
"Man am I ever in the mood for some pizza! Let's head on over to Chuck E. Cheese."
I made the lasagna last week, 13x9 pan. Except for one or two pieces for my wife and kids, I killed the whole thing by the next day. Then I spent the rest of the week adding the leftover Ricotta bechamel to everything. Into the kids' Mac n cheese, on top of my eggs, stirred into my coffee. I feel like a gross load…
That'd be like skipping penetration during sex.
The same rider that posted the chase of the RR posted this one earlier:
I'm a little confused. I'm really not used to so little profanity in my foodspin articles.
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Can we hold a vote to overthrow Albert's foodspin dictatorship and have you take over? Please?