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: Feminism has a clear PR problem, but mocking Women Against Feminism isn’t the solution. Its campaign is an easy target, but painting these women as a bunch of ignorant, outrageous, self-hating women proves their point. Grace Chapman at Vagenda precisely articulated the problem of getting angry at Women Against Feminism. She compared it to her own experience fighting a woman who declared herself not a feminist. She recalled how the other woman’s face “hardened in quiet confidence that she had just been proven right. That we feminists were all the same. Shouty, elitist and actually a little bit mean. Men haters and blamers, women victimizers and blamers.” Mocking Women Against Feminism validates their argument that they don’t belong in the movement and affirms their belief that feminism has no space for them. We—and by “we,” I mean feminists—need to be the bigger person in this battle.