"Quit Fucking Asking Me Questions: A Refresher Course"

[malthaussen]

13. Which stresses the need for education...

... which ties in, oddly, to the point of the OP, why the "failure to educate" is seen as a failing on the part of the feminist.

It's depressing, though. Drawing on the Labor history point, when I was growing up, unions were understood to be valuable and important organizations (but there was considerable grumbling that they were starting to go too far). Yet we chose to piss away 100+ years of labor advancements because we let the vested interests control the discourse. (What we might have done about it is another question, of course) I can see the same thing happening to other civil rights. Since Reagan, and especially in this century, we have been tossing our principles into the trash for the sake of what... some kind of perceived minor security? Somehow, as an idealistic young fool in the early 70's, I didn't think in 2014 an American citizen could be stopped and frisked on her way to Planned Parenthood where mobs would spit in her face and throw things at her. The really sad thing is, I thought most of my contemporaries would agree with that -- and yet, they are the ones in the vanguard of the reaction. Dammit, there is no excuse for that.

-- Mal