1) Making strong social distinctions between out lesbians and straight girls/not-out lesbians. God, that got tedious. Prejudgment by people who were "fighting prejudice." Always a good time, as it's vital to rhetorically rob the power group of their power, even when they aren't actively wielding it or even aware that they have it. There but for the grace of Gloria go I...
2) Wearing revealing hoochie clubwear, but cloaking it in "feminism." Hey, if you want to show your titties and get banged by some dude at Club X, that's your business. Saying that you're doing it "because you're a feminist" doesn't wash with me. I don't stay home on a Saturday night eating hummus in my jammies and watching "Surviving Desire" for the eight millionth time because I'm a "feminist." I do it because I want to.
3) Crapping on the institution of marriage because it's not "Feminist." Hey, if you you don't want to shell out for a gift, just admit it. Don't mire your lack of desire to buy your friends Cuisinarts in gender politics.
4) The Bryn Mawr "sani-bag" controversy. A short history: in the Bryn Mawr dorm bathrooms, there were these things called "sani-bags" for menstruating ladies to place their bloody pads in before tossing them in the trash. A few "feminists" took issue with the bags, which were printed with the slogan "for the discreet woman." An angry cabal of "feminists" wrote heated pro-menses op-eds for the Bi-Co News along the lines of "this makes me so angry that my blood is seen as offensive or disgusting that I'm going to let it run down my leg and I sure as hell won't be using those sani-bags!" So these bitches were leaving their exposed, unwrapped pads on the floor or stuck to the walls, all the while forgetting that it was ANOTHER WOMAN (who didn't have the opportunity to attend a fine school like BMC and had to get a job as these bitches' maid) who had to come in and clean up their feminism. Another op-ed was published reminding the renegade bleeders of their inherent class insensitivity and that bloody pads were biohazards.
Posted by Zerd at March 19, 2008 03:20 PM