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Sophist: “It’s not about acting ladylike, it’s about presenting a united front.”

I was under the impression that feminism was a movement, not an underground conspiracy. These kind of calls for Bolshevik party discipline frankly make me pretty squeamish even independently of feminist concerns about “ladylike” manners, etc.

In any case, one of the topics usually at issue in these debates (as I think ginmar and others have pointed out) is whether some feminists’ efforts really are or are not being supported, and whether the terms of “unity” in some spaces are fair ones or whether they reflect various forms of privilege. Just appealing to “unity” when that’s itself part of the contested territory isn’t going to do much of anything for anybody.