Full disclosure

[icca]

I am a radical feminist.*

I am very proud to be one. I realized today when talking to Juicey, that you are not upsetting the status quo if no one calls you radical. And God dammit, there is nothing I want more than to disrupt the status quo.

*That's just a full stop. There is no disclaimer or further explanation.

Comments

[andthemoon]

Random and unrelated, but did I see you at Fuel and Fuddle on Friday night? Was that you?

[icca]

Yes, yes it was. You should have come over and talked to me since the friends we were with left! XD; Sorry I didn't notice you!

[cherrytop]

*hearts feminism*

*hearts Icca*

[icca]

♥

[vacant_stare]

Wooo! Go Icca! Go women!!

[oneglimringsoul]

What do you do to be radical exactly? BTW if you disrupt the status quo enough to be on the news, tell me so I can watch the video online. :-D

[icca]

I blow things up!

Well, I'm not really doing anything right now other than defining my idealogy and reading a lot. And talking to people all the time and calling out bullshit when I hear it and, well low-impact things that are important but far from you know, marching in the streets. (I'd argue that no one ever marches in the sterets but that's no excuse. I could start the march!) I find that my idealogy falls under "radical feminism" as opposed to "sex-postivie feminism," for instance. I also have a hard time identifying with a lot of third wave feminists, so I'm uncomfortable calling myself that. (Well, that and the fact that I'm not really part of a wave. [yet?] so it seems disengenuous to say that I'm part of a wave anyway :P I find that the things I read that get classified as radical are the things that resonate the most with me.

I'm not sure if that answered your question or not. XD;

[dspace]

Being a radical because you believe the radical ideas is one thing, being a radical because it gets peoples attention is another entirely. Radial feminism isolates itself from many people who would support a more moderate proposal; they see it as just as bad as the status quo you're trying to buck. Honestly I'd hope you'd want your ideas of equality to come to fruition more than you'd want to disrupt the status quo.

[icca]

Well you got me. I'm doing it all for attention.

But really I do want to enslave all men.

[dspace]

In a more serious response... an egalitarian society sure as hell would disrupt the status quo.

[icca]

Odd. I'd assumed I was logged in and I wasn't. My bad