Ugh. An obnoxious combination of the people who think feminism is a nasty word and needs a new image, and the people who summarize a group using their least common denominator. Yea, feminism has problems for the same reason any moderately organized group has problems. Some people kind of suck. Whatever. Move on. She cites the feminisms of Beyonce and Watson, but fails to interpret them in any useful context. People stand up as feminists to say, look, I care about this set of issues - we should all care about them - possibly we should fix them, even. Not to say "PREPARE TO BE ASSIMILATED INTO THE ROBO-ZEALOT-FORCE, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE." We're not all humanists, we're not all socialists, we're not all liberals, we're not all anything, so jesus fucking christ stop trying to adopt feminism ideas into your new-age-pseudo-liberalism, or worse, trying to discard feminism for not being the yupee friend you wish you had. It's about fixing a specific set of problems as a diverse group of people.
Labels aren't important? Like I said, yupee bullshit. This is exactly the kind of individualistic crap that makes people write articles like that. The naivety is twee as fuck. Labels are a perpetual fact of life. They are an extension of groups. The groups we belong to, by choice or not, are what defines our character and our actions. If you want to expand the number of labels - and groups - we can inhabit, then you need to lessen the negative impact of the labels - and groups - we already belong to. Erasing labels is an exercise in futility. It's the new way of saying, "I don't see race." Fucking bullshit you don't.
Alright, I'm done. I just needed to rant for a minute against this bullshit. But seriously. What the fuck is up with people exploring a specific and biased set of nuances in feminism then using those nuances to make a generalized negative monolith of it? How do they not understand that is THE EXACT MENTAL PROCESS that sexism and racism is based out of - a biased exploration of nuance transformed into a monolithic generalization.
Fuck. People.