FWIW I think most people would agree that anon has no idea what kind of feminist you are. I've never got an anti-men or poser vibe from you. IMO you've always had a cool best-of-second-and-third-wave feminist outlook without any of that BS.
I don’t bash guys because I LIKE guys. I don’t like any kind of blanket guy-bashing. I realize there are mindsets that huge numbers of people have that I might consider harmful or obsolete, but I also consider most people, including myself, to be works-in-progress. Who knows what each person will be in ten years? Ten years ago, I was a much bigger asshole than I am now (hopefully) and a lot more ignorant.
I like guys. I don’t care for a lot of the current terminology in this discussion, I don’t worry much about which wave of feminism I belong to, I don’t find any of that very helpful, personally. For some, maybe, for me, no. And I have to admit the feminism that I was raised in was not intersectional and that still seems to be the case for many women.
But I am not a stealth feminist, either. I don’t hide from things I think are wrong, and I don’t mind showing my colors hard on this. Sometimes I can be a little flippant, but being bombarded with the same loaded questions about women and comics for fifteen years does tend to make one a LITTLE jaded sometimes. :)
Like most people, I’m working on it. I’m trying to listen better, and I fight when I think it’s called for. I don’t know what else I can do except use what little voice I have to tell stories that hopefully include, rather than exclude, people of all kinds.
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