Over in The Guardian, Louise Mensch, a conservative feminist and deeply polarizing Kishwaresque figure with a similar penchant for Twitter wars, has blasted leading online feminists. She replays her previous coinage of ‘intersectional bollocks’ and froths further:
And this is what the modern feminist movement has become. Full of intersectionality, debates about middle-class privilege, hand-wringing over a good education (this is again “privilege” and not well-deserved success), and otherwise intelligent women backing out of debates and sitting around frenziedly checking their privilege. It does nothing. It accomplishes nothing. It changes nothing.
Read Mensch on ‘reality based feminism’ if you want a lesson in how to strike nerves. Laurie Penny, one the offending intersecters, responds here.
Are we afraid to admit Mensch has a smidgen of truth on her side? What do you think?
Photo: Louise Mensch’s Flickr.
June 12, 2013 at 4:31 am
Wot?! No response?? Ok, cool, so then I can ramble. I read both articles and I hate that Louise Mensch (she’s got a point or two, but more on that later.) I hate that she sounds like most of the men who respond to FB threads and say bollocks like “…if you want to be emancipated, women, you just gotta go out and get it” That inspires nothing more than a big old slap in me. I think checking one’s privilege should be the new black, as far as living in these times goes. Having said that (deep breath) I am also sick of the rot of political correctness that prevents us from being pro-active and calling a spade a bloody spade. Extrapolate from spade to anything you wish. So, there, sadly, I am with Ms.Mensch.