bad_feminists

[pegkerr]

As a result of some of the comments on my last few entries, lilsonna has made a new community, bad_feminists ("Created for those of us who no longer can quite use the phrase 'oppressive dominant patriarchy' with a straight face but still consider themselves strong feminists.")

What shall we do with it, everybody?

Comments

[pameladean]

I dunno, I find my main reaction is to say, "Don't take names to yourself, Smeagol," but I hope that the community is what you want it to be.

P.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I find my main reaction is to say, "Don't take names to yourself, Smeagol," but I hope that the community is what you want it to be.

Thank you!

That expresses what was on the edge of my mind but not grabbing words for itself. Both counts.



I think that when I was surrounded almost exclusively by strong feminists, this idea would have tickled me without giving rise to any reservations. But now I spend a lot of time with women who would not want to call themselves feminists and are, in many ways, different from what I would call feminist, and I feel a little bleaker about the whole thing.

Laughter and the willingness to create something, with humor and energy, to meet an unmet need of your own and the community's - that's pretty cool, though.

[pameladean]

Yeah, that's kind of where I am too. There really doesn't seem to be a superabundance of feminism; the ease with which the same dopey stereotypes arise at the slightest provocation alarms me; and I don't see the provocation in the same light as I otherwise might, even.

And yes, indeed, making something new because nothing existing fills your requirements, is a fine thing.

I don't join LJ communities, though. One must draw the line somewhere, or one would get nothing done at all.

P.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

What I said here.