One of the major things n in feminism that i have really felt, and you've ovesly been victim of yourself, is that there's a willingness to knock down anyone who's less than perfect. And actually, no, ad hominem, or in this case, ad feminim, attacks are just a lazy way of not actually engaging with somewhat someone's saying. So yet, i don't think that particularly unique o to now. But equally well, i do think that the fact that there's just such a cacophany, it's very hard. It's on the reasons i'm such a big fan of the b b c,. for all its flauses, it
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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