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.