Comments on: 48. READ. LOOK. THINK. http://jessicastanley.com.au/2012/10/26/48-read-look-think/ Reading, looking, thinking. And taking photographs, cooking and writing, too. Sat, 18 May 2013 11:58:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Hila http://jessicastanley.com.au/2012/10/26/48-read-look-think/#comment-672 Hila Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:11:05 +0000 http://jessicastanley.com.au/?p=2389#comment-672 To me, what happened with Caitlin Moran/the Vagenda Magazine defense wasn’t infighting, it was a lack of awareness and inclusivity amongst people who should really know better. It was totally bizarre for me to listen to women like Moran and the Vagenda Magazine editors, who stand for gender equality, shut down any discussion of other forms of inequality amongst women as either irrelevant or too ‘academic’ (WTF?). It should be common sense that race is a pertinent issue in feminism and gender. As I’ve been watching the whole debate unfold, I’ve realised that they have perhaps unwittingly exercised a form of snobbery themselves, not understanding how alienating it is to suggest to both underprivileged women and to educated women that what they have to bring to the table is ‘irrelevant’, in favour of ‘popular feminism’. Feminism should be allowed to have diverse voices. People simply called them out on that, and it actually led to some necessary discussion which I think only enriches feminism.

That being said, I also think it’s perfectly okay for feminists to disagree. That doesn’t fracture the movement or what it stands for, it just shows it is comprised by diverse people. We’re not always going to agree, and to expect there to be no disagreement every once in a while is to place unrealistic expectations on all feminists.

Happy weekend Jessica!

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