As ever, I'm late to the party on this. By the time I came across the #sorryfeminist Twitter hashtag it was already dominated by anti-feminist and anti-woman rhetoric. It was just another way to bash women. After all, we wouldn't want the MRAs to get bored or, you know, try to work on their creativity.
Anyway, the hashtag got off to an ironic start taking the piss about Deborah Needleman, the new editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine which I, as ever, have never heard of. Needleman tweeted this:
Now, I can see why Feminists started a hashtag to ridicule this tweet. It's rude. But, come on, did no one see this going badly from the start? No one? Really?
Because, the moment I saw it, my heart sank. I just knew it would be full of MRAs and handmaidens being deliberately malicious and hurtful. It's pretty obvious that a lot of the people currently using the hashtag don't know why it started. But, the damage has been done. It's so full of anti-feminist rhetoric that its just another pathetic woman-bashing exercise: predictable, tedious and lacking any humour.
Because, the moment I saw it, my heart sank. I just knew it would be full of MRAs and handmaidens being deliberately malicious and hurtful. It's pretty obvious that a lot of the people currently using the hashtag don't know why it started. But, the damage has been done. It's so full of anti-feminist rhetoric that its just another pathetic woman-bashing exercise: predictable, tedious and lacking any humour.
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