2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Not With Her, Still a Feminist [View all]athena
(4,187 posts)Just like "vegan".
One is not a feminist just because one declares that one is. If you're a "feminist" who goes around denigrating women who have spent their lives fighting for equality, if you don't take great care to be conscious of and to fight the misogyny that you have inevitably absorbed by living in this society, then, IMHO, you are not a feminist. If you are a woman who thinks Hillary is "an embarrassment" and will declare so on a public forum, comparing her to Cain and Carson, if you will call her illegitimate despite the millions of votes she got, if you will go so far as vote against Hillary in the general election, then, I'm sorry, but you are anything but a feminist.
I suspect that Rebkeh is very young -- so young that she has not yet experienced sexism and does not understand that that is what she is buying into, even as she calls herself a feminist. Being young, however, does not make it OK to dismiss hundreds of years of struggle that have come before you and to refuse to listen to other voices.