Femini, i think, is got a particular problem, because women are expected to respond well to criticism. I just don't see male public intellectuals suffering under that expectation,. No one who has a popper, say, gordan peterson, is expecting him to go, oh, i'm so sorry you were offended. That's a particular feature of the feminist movement, i think.
Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines.
It's time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women.
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