[after reading the post you linked I honestly felt that I just need to press "post comment" and say no more because I am speechless due to a state of dread and horror. i needed to zone out for a little while after reading that post from thegreenirene.]
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A lot of people, not knowing the history of the wank, got caught in the crossfire; and, instead of making the argument itself transparent, the loudest voices instead decided to wage a "why you're doing feminism wrong" education campaign, which obviously did not go over well.
In recent years I have seen this kind of dynamic occur in other fandoms and in other interest groups on tumblr, and in fandom spaces not on tumblr. I also know of incidents with similar dynamics on twitter and facebook, all outside of fandom. Obviously, these aren't necessarily wars over "doing feminism wrong" but, it is always doing "something" wrong -- always some form of ritualized groupthink that takes control of a public forum, and then other people on that public forum say something that isn't phrased in the correct tribal lingo and the attacks begin.
Disputes over modes of symbolic representation devolved into an almost Orwellian policing of female sexuality, and by the beginning of 2015 kinkshaming had become the dominant mode of "discourse."
Because nothing says "inclusive feminism" like the policing of female sexuality... >_>
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Speechless.
[after reading the post you linked I honestly felt that I just need to press "post comment" and say no more because I am speechless due to a state of dread and horror. i needed to zone out for a little while after reading that post from thegreenirene.]
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A lot of people, not knowing the history of the wank, got caught in the crossfire; and, instead of making the argument itself transparent, the loudest voices instead decided to wage a "why you're doing feminism wrong" education campaign, which obviously did not go over well.
In recent years I have seen this kind of dynamic occur in other fandoms and in other interest groups on tumblr, and in fandom spaces not on tumblr. I also know of incidents with similar dynamics on twitter and facebook, all outside of fandom. Obviously, these aren't necessarily wars over "doing feminism wrong" but, it is always doing "something" wrong -- always some form of ritualized groupthink that takes control of a public forum, and then other people on that public forum say something that isn't phrased in the correct tribal lingo and the attacks begin.
Disputes over modes of symbolic representation devolved into an almost Orwellian policing of female sexuality, and by the beginning of 2015 kinkshaming had become the dominant mode of "discourse."
Because nothing says "inclusive feminism" like the policing of female sexuality... >_>