2013-04-08
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things I have learned from #onlinefeminism: an inexhaustive list
(April 8: Future of #OnlineFeminism Day.)
( I made myself stop at five hundred words; this topic is good for fifty thousand )
#onlinefeminism has taught me most everything I know about the kyriarchy in all its forms. The rest I learned on my own, but didn't understand without the tools online feminism gave me. I thought, for example, that all the times I suggested a thing and nobody listened and a guy suggested that thing and everybody listened, those resulted from some personal fault of my own. Turns out it's a sexist pattern, not my fault at all. Without online feminism, I would never have figured that out.
Online feminism has changed my life. At this point it would be entirely fair to say that online feminism (and fandom, but there's heavy overlap) IS my life.
My heart's still beating. Feminism must not be dead.
( I made myself stop at five hundred words; this topic is good for fifty thousand )
#onlinefeminism has taught me most everything I know about the kyriarchy in all its forms. The rest I learned on my own, but didn't understand without the tools online feminism gave me. I thought, for example, that all the times I suggested a thing and nobody listened and a guy suggested that thing and everybody listened, those resulted from some personal fault of my own. Turns out it's a sexist pattern, not my fault at all. Without online feminism, I would never have figured that out.
Online feminism has changed my life. At this point it would be entirely fair to say that online feminism (and fandom, but there's heavy overlap) IS my life.
My heart's still beating. Feminism must not be dead.