Being a woman and also a boss is not enough, if you’re just as exploitative and terrible as any other boss.

If you acknowledge that women have choices, you should accept their choices.

Okay, I’m gonna say this one time:

Can AM Joy run for President? Or at the very least get a daily show? I can think of at least 5 people off the top of my head that MSNBC could bump to get her a better slot.

Lol, yeah. Just don’t try to get that kind of stimulation from pop music, I say. That’s why we have beautiful, wondrous books!

Do you know who these writers are? This is it. This is what they do all day on their own blogs. This is their best work.

“Also it’s weird that no one is posting her follow up comment in that same interview. Literally as part of her very next question when she agrees with Tavi that it’s ultimately not against feminism.”

See, and this is where I’m caught up on how many people are grabbing pitchforks to go after Rachel, claiming they are hip to all things trans and they don’t even fucking understand what gender is.

still scratching my head at how people can identify as a different gender but can not identify as a different race.

I think it’s reductionist and unfair to say that I think “all other action is meaningless”. It’s not, and I’m not sure you’re really thinking about any of this in good faith right now. I do think it’s telling how sensitive you are to the idea that there might be things about your life - what you value, what you…

This entire thread is the most Jezebel thing ever. Complete and total inability to reckon with even the most limited criticism. Yeeeeesh.

That’s so sweet and wonderful :) Thank you!

Crispin also criticizes Lena Dunham, Rebecca Traister, Steinem, HRC, etc. Beyonce, like these other women, has used feminism to boost her brand while raking in millions off the exploitation of others. Her definition of feminism is more radical, as is inherent in black feminism, but I think Crispin’s (limited!)…

I think the point being made is that the capitalist system is inherently designed to keep people down and to do damage to them. By attaching this sort-of “empowerment” lens on what amount to personal minutiae we’re doing a huge disservice to the larger issues of actual equality and parity.

Fortunately or unfortunately, I don’t see that sort of criticism but I know it exists (for example, the response to Beyonce’s appearance at the CMAs?). My interpretation of Crispin is that she is exactly responding to that double standard because it is “power feminism,” not a true belief in the equal and human rights…

I think your last paragraph is Crispin’s point. White feminism was usually tied with getting access to the capital and power of the patriarch that always oppressed WoC. Crispin wants to use Beyoncé of an example of her preference of using power feminism instead of white feminism, because it is also very common for WoC…

You understand that the writer brought up Beyonce, not Crispin. She never names Beyonce, she’s talking about how women, mostly white, perform feminism within the comfort of the male capitalist system, and it helps no one but themselves, so it isn’t feminism. Her exact point is that many famous people do it (like Lena…

weird and suspicious

She is exactly making that point. That women, mostly white (notice her section on self-care) who perform “feminism” within the male patriarchal structure are not feminist. She talks about social conditioning. She is exactly saying that white feminism isn’t really just “white,” it’s from a position of power because of…

I’m personally sick of cutesy, swallow, self-centered feminism. And I’m really sick of reactionary feminism that is hysterical over dumb things (i.e. I just watched a bunch of women screaming at a Twitter ad about how binge drinking affects women’s health and they called it victim blaming. Um, they aren’t talking…