Love, love, love Melissas response to Loewensteins silly piece: Not daring to add his white, male voice to the debate. Which he seems to believe is about how feminists are not nearly as good at doing feminism as he is. All of this is couched in rhetoric of men needing to get involved in feminism, because its not fair to leave the fight singularly to women. But he uses that only insomuch as to suggest theres a place for him to criticize feminists, despite the fact that feminists who discuss mens role in feminism (myself included) are advocating that men get engaged to talk to other men, not get engaged to lecture feminists on how theyre doing feminism wrong. Hes borrowing the language of feminists—who he repeatedly marginalizes as unyielding, strident, mean, and terrifying—in order to criticize us. And has already set us up as hysterical scolds, so that if any of us disagree that his approach is helpful, were just proving his point. But I desperately want men to get engaged in feminist advocacy. The thing is that what Antony Loewenstein is doing here isnt feminist advocacy. Its feminist policing. Its basic concern trolling masquerading as feminist allyship.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:07:37 +0000
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