I'd like you to do an experiment. Go to Google image search, and look for the following in order. Note how many sexualized images you see before you have to scroll down. Here's my total: Wonderwoman: 1 Maybe she's not a good example. Most pictures are of the TV...
So this is going to be a long one. Settle in, folks... specifically white cisgender feminists. Yeah, women like me. I'm talking to you now. This is partly about me, and partly about you. I'm going to tell you how I came to dislike mainstream feminism. Let me tell you...
So here we are, finally at the end. Thanks for reading this series. I hope it's been interesting for you... I've saved this for the last, because it's so important to me. The price of truly being an ally is eternal vigilance. Everything I've said already means nothing...
You have got to care about people. Don't get into social justice to prove a point, or to win an argument. Don't do it for money. Do it because you want the world to be a better place, and you're angered by how terrible it can be at times. You have got to care, about...
This is more six-year-old shit, and yet I see it all the time - people make a mistake or say something problematic, and instead of just apologizing and trying to do better, they double down and get defensive, like admitting fault is admitting defeat - or worse,...
This is more a life lesson in general, but whatever. It's also something pretty close to my own heart, because I see it in reference to women in films and video games. You don't know people, just because you met someone like them. People are not monoliths. Don't...
So, you know how I said that experience trumps theory? Well, here's the caveat - experience doesn't trump other experiences.Your experience is not general or universal.What I mean is that you had best be very, very careful about taking your personal experience and...
You are (presumably) not in school any more. (If you are, kudos for your interest in feminsm!) Here in the adult world, there are no on-demand educators unless you start throwing money around. Instead, you have the might of Google and most of the knowledge and wisdom...
I would have thought that this would be obvious on many, many levels, but holy shit, even I can be surprised sometimes. NEVER blame or condemn people for doing things you personally don't agree with to survive. You know how conservatives rage about gay marriage? You...
Okay, I loves me some science. I love statistics, and data, and collation, and - look, I'm a colossal nerd. My ideas of fun are alien to the rest of the world. But even in social settings, I can never forget the scientific method, and that's where evidence is more...
It's shamefully true that the privileged have a measure of assumed authority. Words and concepts are given higher precedence when they come from a man than from a woman, for example. That perception does a grave injustice to the oppressed, and you must fight against...
Saddle up, kids. It's time to be controversial. Far be it for me to lay down the law for all of feminism, but this is... a set of rules? Guidelines? I don't know. But this is something I've been thinking about for a while now, so I thought I'd just write it all out,...