he says that calling oneself Not A Feminist is a white middle-class (female) luxury.
And I think he's right. And, also, those women are still blind. I know that for a while, growing up in the States, but within a very Russian circle, I was led to believe that feminists were just a radical group of women who were out of touch with their own femininity. My own grandmother believes that a woman who doesn't want children, for instance, is not a real woman. It took a while to cut through all that in order to understand it as a bunch of BS ingrained so far into Russian society, they will never climb out. (Just one in a series of disappointments in my old country, and definitely one of the biggest.)
I sit next to a group of people who have their heads and thumbs so far up their own asses, they actually make jokes about this. And it drives me crazy, sitting there, wanting to scream at them to open their goddamn eyes.
Well. Fuck 'em. There are more important fish to fry, you know?
Would the members of these minorities jump ship and self-identify as Not Black, Not Jewish, Not Catholic?
It's freakish, isn't it. How? Why? I can't get my mind around the mentality. These women who would rather close their eyes then be forced to look at something ugly. I will never understand it.
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And I think he's right. And, also, those women are still blind. I know that for a while, growing up in the States, but within a very Russian circle, I was led to believe that feminists were just a radical group of women who were out of touch with their own femininity. My own grandmother believes that a woman who doesn't want children, for instance, is not a real woman. It took a while to cut through all that in order to understand it as a bunch of BS ingrained so far into Russian society, they will never climb out. (Just one in a series of disappointments in my old country, and definitely one of the biggest.)
I sit next to a group of people who have their heads and thumbs so far up their own asses, they actually make jokes about this. And it drives me crazy, sitting there, wanting to scream at them to open their goddamn eyes.
Well. Fuck 'em. There are more important fish to fry, you know?
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It's freakish, isn't it. How? Why? I can't get my mind around the mentality. These women who would rather close their eyes then be forced to look at something ugly. I will never understand it.
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