Why I am Not a Feminist, or “My Anti-Feminist Manifesto”

[102bb]

READ IT ALL. 1. Being a woman, and being a woman of color, and being a Muslim, I choose to not be a feminist or in any way have the term feminist applied to my person, my choices, my thoughts, my writings or my art. I reserve the right to self-identify as I see fit and to define myself in relation to my culture and my ideals. I do not wish to take

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[velvetlungs]

btw ot:
can i just say how fucking happy i am that this comm exists lol. ontd is so full of misogyny/racism sometimes i just can't even

[fever_pitch_]

I know what you mean .... This place makes me happy.

[infidelkast]

[flowerings]

I'm afraid this community's quality will decease if it gets more popular though.

[ennifer_jay]

[popehippo]

Ahahaha, omg, that giiiiiif.

Oh, and.

[ennifer_jay]

RACISM IS A WOMAN'S ISSUE.

That is all.

[fruhlings]

YES THIS.

Re: Oh, and.

[passthepeaches]

THANK YOU!

[persiascarecrow]

that put me in my place

[bluetooth16]

1) I did not know Alice Walker was a Muslim. You learn something new every day.

2) I'm itching to write an epic rant on the alienation of women who are not liberal from the feminist movement.

[102bb]

As far as I know, Alice Walker isn't a Muslim. Alice Walker's quote is simply used in the article. The first part of this post was a rant from another person's blog that was linked in another blog by The Angry Black Woman. This post is a mash-up of two different articles with the same basic idea.

[bluetooth16]

Oops. That's what I get for reading both too fast.

[meran_flash]

Define "liberal" and "conservative".

Because social conservatism is pretty much inherently anti-feminist.