"She can label herself any way she wants"

"Or just, you know, use your ENORMOUS FAME and ALL THESE REPORTERS wanting to listen to literally anything you're willing to say and start a more in-depth conversation about it."

Haha, I had a friend who came from abroad and disliked all foreigners. He had the "I'm in / fck the rest of them" - mentality. Maybe that goes for feminism too?

"And its not like talking about male rape hurts the movement to end women's rape!"

Hayek needs to sit down, shut up and listen? She doesn't want the label. Respect that.

"Feminism will make me seem threatening and bitchy and less hot."

But the one that bakes my noodle is when people suggest feminism has negatively affected men. *facepalm*

Teach young dubm women what feminism is! Yay-yay-yay.

Do rolling eyes ever look inwards towards the brain and ask: why? Why does a woman who embraces the ideas reject the label? How come this stuff always goes to "ignore"?

If you are the boss of feminism, there's hope. Are you?

My anecdotal factoids are Dutch, not American. I enjoy reading your perspective. Thanks for taking the time to put it to paper. Don't worry: most people are decent enough - be they gamers or feminists. Just don't let one digagreement or "red flad" fool you. Shit people are pretty obvious. You seem nice. Have a great…

<<<You, as well as several other people on this thread and a plethora of men I've seen on the news or had conversations with, seem to conflate the idea of "wanting to have sex with women" with "loving women.">>>

"Frankly, if a person with clearly feminist values won't identify with a political movement with the same putative goals, who's that on?"

Trojan Butch! Hide the children!

It's not her responsibility; it's feminisms' to ask themselves where they went haywire PR-wise so much that Hayek embraces most of the ideas while rejecting the label.

I managed to get a subscription to the Feminist Newsletter. So I know about next week's massacre of men... But I also enjoyed the recipes a lot.

Wow. Lovely play!

It's seems to be more about blaming women who reject the label than examining WHY they would do that. Hardly any self-reflection.

How is men dissecting female behaviour and psychology to get laid worse than women dissecting male behaviour and psychology to get married?

This is part of what bugs me about feminism. It's like a very strict church and if you don't talk the talk and walk the walk exactly , you'll get shamed, blamed and blasted. Now, is that freedom of choice?