This is an excerpt from an actual IM conversation that I had with a male who I am friends with. The conversation was all normal and whatnot until it took a hard left turn into Feministville. I would like it to be known that I am not posting this to be malicious towards male friend; I just think it’s a shining example of how ingrained sexism is in our culture. Behold:
Tired Feminist: I’m sorry that she’s not nice
Dood: eh..girls will be girls
(Cocks Spock-esque eyebrow; I smell danger already.)
Dood: petty and conspiratorial and subtly vicious
(Ah, shit.)
Tired Feminist: I’m not like that and I have a vagina
Dood: that is true but you are a woman not a girl
(…There are so many ways my dood friend could have responded that would have been worlds less offensive than this. fucking. response.)
This is just the beginning; you can dive deep into a morass of fruitless argument, privilege denial, and mansplanation after the jump…
Ash
Alice