“This is not an…

“This is not an attitude that is conducive to genuinely democratic deliberation.”

What the feministing post says, quite straightforwardly, is that they have better things to do with their time: more interesting people to talk to and more useful ways to spend their time than rehashing Feminism 101 yet again for yet another group of dudes on the web too lazy to pick up a copy of Sisterhood is Powerful. And why should they be expected to do anything different?

The goal of the feminist movement is to stop men’s oppression of women, not to sit around “deliberating” with sexists until they are persuaded to be a bit less sexist than they are. Sometimes the second is a means to the first, and sometime it is a distraction from it or even an obstacle to it. When they conflict, the first is always more important.

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