Clemetine's courageous article and my rather cheeky response

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SUNDAY MAIL columnist CLEMENTINE FORD reveals she had not one but two abortions - and that it was a really, really easy decision without guilt or shame.Clementine, you are an incredible, brave and amazing woman to stand up and put yourself out there for the rights of women and children everywhere. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your

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I'm glad that you like her blog and that you get something out of what she has to say. I never said that her blog was worthless or boring or anything like that. There are many women out there who are attracted by her writing and take on things. Fair enough. I will support women like her as sisters when they do something courageous, like Clemetine did.

But I get frustrated by women thinking that men who sexualise women who might have an inch of fat on their bodies, are feminist. That's completely wrong. I also get frustrated by ignorance. Especially around issues of lesbianism and spinsterhood. That post on queer marriage showed a complete lack of understanding about lesbian feminism. And I'm allowed to not want to read it.

I can not be ignorant about the realities of heterosexual women's lives. I work with heterosexual women, I work with the children of heterosexual women, I organise activism with heterosexual women, I have friendships with heterosexual women. It is unavoidable to me to not know about what affects heterosexual women. My activism reflects what I know about heterosexual women's lives. If I didn't know about heterosexual women I would find out. So, I am allowed to be frustrated by heterosexual feminist disinterest in lesbian feminist analysis.

What I said was that she was too liberal feminist for my tastes. I am not all that interested in reading her blog until she has a better understanding of lesbian feminism and size acceptance. If you like her less radical feminist position, then I cast no aspersions on you.

I am not trying to get people to accept feminism and spread the word. I am trying to create a small bubble of sisterhood and sanity in this world where women are routinely raped and slaughtered by men. I want to change the world and to do that I am willing to make compromises but not at the expense of my integrity. I encounter enough frustrating things in real life, the net is my safe space.