ok.

Interesting perspective! Glad you shared it.

I'm not going to comment on whether what she's saying is true, false, or a bit-of-truth-but-exaggerated as I have no way of knowing.

It is a question of priorities, but not one of what you're characterising as a niche-focus group (not what feminism is, but ok) over everyone else.

To try and put this in context, a lot of the things I'm seeing on with the whole 'I don't need feminism' thing (here and elsewhere) are misunderstandings based on people taking things others have said on the internet, such as tumblr or twitter, and deciding based on that this is how feminists are and this is what…

I don't disagree with your opinion re: humans on the internet and ideologies (no, that's not what I'm doing).

Ok, that's fine. You're free to not believe it, it's your opinion and you're entitled to it.

I agree with big_ole_nate.

...Not you specifically, but replying to you as "I think you're lying" is the most blatant/strongly worded example of many of the responses in a similar vein...

Fair enough you don't want to call yourself a feminist. Though the term "feminazi" is fairly malicious in godwining feminism (it...really...is quite a ways away from nazism in terms of ideology...).*

it may have already been said but the bloggess posted a good bit about this as well:

I think I could, tbh.

...yeah, that works.

"She told him it was inappropriate" and "there is no reason in the world he should have gotten any message other than her acceptance" are contradictory statements.

Precisely this.

The bigger question is why anyone thinks sending a photo of their trouser snake (or fur burger, I'm not discriminating) on first meeting is a good idea. 0_o

/o\

"You granted permission by acceptance."

Ehhh...

"Here was what would be, by any account, an excellent suitor: Smart, attractive, complimentary. Perhaps the dick pic was a mere blip, a momentary lapse in judgment in an otherwise estimable character. Maybe I was being uptight, prudish, missish, unrealistic. I swept past the incident, redirected, changed the subject,…