Title: You Don’t Hate Feminism. You Just Don’t Understand It.
Headings: You Don’t Hate Feminism. You Just Don’t Understand It.
You Don’t Hate Feminism. You Just Don’t Understand It.
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Emily Shire
The Daily Beast
“Mel”

Content: So we’re just sticking to our own self-expression through social media. Thank you. “Mel”
When I told "Mel" I wanted to give her organization a chance to share their story and motives, she wrote back "I think the photos speaks for themselves." I could have argued with “Mel” six ways to Sunday about why she was wrong about both the feminist movement and our publication, but I realized there wasn’t a point. She was too turned off by the media and by a self-declared feminist to even talk about her organization. The response showed a weakness in the Women Against Feminism leadership, and it confirmed my suspicions that the movement was more gimmicky than substantive. But I don’t want to jump on the Women Against Feminism pile-on because that’s what drove women to it in the first. There is no question that Women Against Feminism is utterly and completely misguided in its understanding of what feminism is. But they aren’t only the ones. Feminism gets a bad rap, and people perceive the movement as meaning something very narrow and specific—and negative.