Embarrassment for Jessica Valenti as feminist bloggers encourage a boycott of her Feministing website

WarzoneOfDefecation · 2009-11-17T18:57:43+00:00

ugh, it's like a victimhood circle jerk over there.

cynwrig · 2009-11-17T20:54:44+00:00

Hmm. Its almost if all the problems that feminism arose to oppose have been vanquished, and all that is left is outdated resentment and frustrated hate looking for a target.

Sort of like the west after the Cold war was won - feminism has been denied an enemy through victory, and is having difficulty transitioning to a new world. They want to keep that winning feeling going, even if it means making new enemies.

INTPLibrarian · 2009-11-17T19:21:40+00:00

Seems more to me like a bunch of people who can't tolerate that someone might define feminism differently than they do or who spend more time focusing on some issues related to feminism than on others are having a hissy fit.

I don't think any Feminist site is required to perfectly and equally represent each and every individual Feminist out there.

I hope people reading the boycott posts are actually reading them to see if they agree instead of blindly boycotting (or not). Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of faith that most people read more than headlines. :-(

Mesca · 2009-11-17T20:32:57+00:00

Feministing is an embarassment.
But I couldn't even understand the post calling for boycott.

Whatever.

I'm filing this one under:
"Various shouting among angry or uptight women."

WildYams · 2009-11-17T21:42:40+00:00

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Mugendai · 2009-11-17T20:07:07+00:00

From a link in the article...

ableist, transphobic, classist, and sizeist language used in posts on Feministing and tolerated in the comment threads.

Ableism and Sizeism? I just don't know what to say.

mdoddr · 2009-11-17T23:38:58+00:00

Yeah, well, it's not because they are crazy overzealous feminazis. It's because they insulted disabled people. Or something. I could barely figure out what was being said.

Title	Embarrassment for Jessica Valenti as feminist bloggers encourage a boycott of her Feministing website
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Date	November 17, 2009 4:20 PM UTC (16 years ago)
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