Feminism, at its root, is radical only in the sense that it insists women are people. That’s it! Not goddesses, not perpetual victims, not vengeful Furies, not pocket-sized political statements designed to make brands feel relevant during Women’s History Month. Just… people. Capable of being brilliant and petty, nurturing and cruel, tender and

"Feminism is supposed to be about equality."

No it isn't. It's about liberation. I don't want to be treated like a man. Y'all are not the blueprint. What I do want is to be free of men’s power and influence in determining how I'm treated as a human being.

If feminism is anything, every argument against it is valid.

A concept cannot be falsified if its definition constantly shifts. Feminism suffers from semantic slippage veering into incoherence. When I argue that it’s disempowering, someone inevitably says my definition of feminism isn’t true and constructs a straw man assuming I’m against women’s

Female social control is justified by feminism

I was policed and abused by my mother until college. Outside the home, I was bullied by girls exclusively. In the past twenty years I’ve been socially exiled multiple times because I refused to conform to the women and girls around me. The rejection of soft control is read as hostility and betrayal,