Who’s with me in that the notorious “Confessions of a Recovering Tumblr Feminist” post that is being massively linked and cited is a fake?
I got suspicious of it from its very beginning when I read the following [emphasis is mine]:
For me, feminism was an enticing religion. Raised in a home devoid of faith, I eagerly accepted its philosophy as my ticket to salvation.
Really? A home devoid of faith? Secular people don’t speak like that. This is the flowery and exalted language of an Evangelical who is posing as a feminist. But wait, there is more:
For example, feminist ideology taught me that any opinions that were conservative, or just didn’t align with the party line were violence. It also taught me that the best way to fight opposition is to try to silence it. Don’t like what someone says? Protest them. Shut their event down.
This is a parody of feminism that I keep encountering on the ultra-conservative websites that I read assiduously. Nobody in actual feminist circles says things like “any conservative opinions are violence.” I detest Women’s Studies departments as much as the next person but they don’t speak this way. To the contrary, what’s exasperating about them is how hard they try to be inclusive and not to criticise anybody for fear of hurting feelings.
This was seen most recently, when Milo Yiannopoulos’s speech at DePaul University came to an end when two social justice warriors ran onto the stage and hijacked the mic in protest of Milo’s views.
A real ex-feminist would mention the de-platforming of Madeleine Albright, not this mumbly fellow. He is of interest only to the Evangelicals whose websites, I repeat, I read all the time.
It’s not the substance of what she is saying that I find suspicious. It’s the language, the exaltation, and the examples she chooses.
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Secular feminists raised as such don’t use religious metaphors like that, I agree. And there’s no feminist party line. “Feminist Party Line” does, however, sound like a title to a Riot Grrl dance track that uses dial up tones, banjos and multi part harmonies to convey the nosiness and closeness of a judgmental small town. (Yes, I’ve totally mixed all kinds of genres together).
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I think all these ‘I used to be X..’ articles are fake, or at the very least written in bad faith.
‘I used to be a smoker..’ and then use that as a license to say smokers are history’s greatest monsters.
‘I used to be fat so watch me as I heap abuse on all fatties, with complete immunity.’
‘I used to be a Bernie supporter but…’ 🙂
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“‘I used to be a smoker..’ and then use that as a license to say smokers are history’s greatest monsters.
‘I used to be fat so watch me as I heap abuse on all fatties, with complete immunity.’
‘I used to be a Bernie supporter but…’”
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I dunno, convert zeal is a real thing in my experience. I agree that this particular post is probably fake, but the overall genre of conversion narrative is hardly a fabrication.
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“I dunno, convert zeal is a real thing in my experience.”
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