Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Right Wing Conspiracy

Lena Dunham accuses Right Wing nutjobs of...quoting her?

Some feminist makes an interesting point:
Like Caitlin Moran, Lena Dunham exists in that vapid and overly-self-conscious niche of mainstream feminism where the overwhelming concern is white women, their problems, their lives, and much talk and examination of the size and shape of and feelings about their bodies. It’s all very surface-level feminism. Lots of talk about accepting your body and being able to have the kind of sex you want, not much about the lives and experiences of anybody outside their demographic, accompanied by the assumption that of COURSE we must all be interested. It’s light, it’s easily digestible. And when we are in that nook, that warm little wrinkle of surface-level feminism that focuses on the “me me me”, it can become escapism. Liberating on an individual level, for sure, empowering even, but ultimately it’s for the individual and not for the collective. And so what do white feminists repeatedly do when their go-to feminists of the comfortable escapism variety mess up? We keep ignoring it, letting it go, moving on, chalking it up to a misunderstanding.
I find it hard to distinguish between feminism and complaining.

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