Dear Washington Post:
What are you even doing?
This is an extremely shitty headline, @washingtonpost. pic.twitter.com/ATq4xg47LJ
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 12, 2017
Can you understand, @washingtonpost, how profoundly insulting that is to actual feminists who have been working incredibly hard to fight this administration, and taking all kinds of abuse as a consequence? https://t.co/p5SBBYtDGX
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 12, 2017
The @washingtonpost suggests that Kellyanne Conway saying she's not a feminist (thus prompting dictionary searches of "feminism") is more headline-worthy than all the feminist work done all year. In a year of the Women's March AND Me Too. https://t.co/5hW0vnb1fB
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 12, 2017
Do I really need to point out that privileging the unintentional awareness-raising of feminism by a woman rejecting the label over the intentional, thoughtful, deliberative work of actual proud feminists is itself deeply anti-feminist?
And over a woman's byline, no less.
Gross, WaPo. Gross.
No Love,
Liss
[If you cannot see the embedded screencap of the headline, it reads: "'Feminism' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year, thanks in part to Kellyanne Conway."]
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