I don’t want to see women berated for their first steps into contested ground but feminism isn’t a spectator sport. If you want in, you put yourself in. If you sit on the board of a national ‘feminist’ NGO, you surely can’t sit it out and wait for the storm to pass.
If you’re taking the first steps into battles other feminists have been fighting for years, you don’t assume yours is the nuanced, informed or most valid position.
You remember that no advance in women’s rights has happened without a fight from women.
You remember that no advance in women’s rights has happened without a fight from women.
Surely you recognise that no advance is women’s rights has been achieved by women being nice.
We haven’t yet achieved the liberation of women from patriarchal subordination. We are still fighting.
Surely you know that if you’ve opted in?
We haven’t yet achieved the liberation of women from patriarchal subordination. We are still fighting.
Surely you know that if you’ve opted in?
Those of us who are in, we know we need to bring sisters with us, not shove them back or shut them down, but we won’t be treated like idiots, we won’t stand for our groundwork being disrespected. We won’t be patronised. We won’t be turned into the problem.
That’s not the same as not giving other women space for leaning and growth, not letting other women make mistakes. It’s self bloody respect.
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