i understand that. i stand by what i said before. it’s homophobic and anti-woman. feminism is for women, including aggressive man-hating lesbians. what are your goals as a feminist? is it to support women—all women—in achieving equality? or is it to make ‘feminism’ acceptable within the existing patriarchal power structure? if it’s the latter, it defeats the purpose of feminism in the first place. feminism cannot be accepted by patriarchy, because it is a system designed to keep women down. if your feminism is acceptable, it does not actually do what feminism is supposed to do, which is destroy that system.
if the goal is to achieve social equality for all women, then we need to look at which women are least acceptable, most threatening, most devalued. Women of color, trans women, disabled women, fat women, queer women, angry and hostile women—women deemed worthless or dangerous to patriarchy/kyriarchy—these women are most in need of pro-woman movements, and projects like yours only kick them in the teeth. why bother trying to break these stereotypes unless there is something wrong with being that sort of woman?
what i want to ask you this: why is your project focused on showing that feminists can be socially acceptable (which is to say, people who already hold a great deal of systemic power over, for example, aggressive lesbians) rather than on accepting and supporting women who are most disadvantaged by this system? why does it seem that your project is more about preserving the privileged status of a few than dismantling the system that allows that privilege in the first place? why does your project imply that ‘equal rights’ is somehow not necessarily the goal of feminism in the first place?
idk man, idk. i started identifying as a feminist because i care about women, because i thought that feminism was about fighting for the right of all women to be valued and respected as human beings. but if it’s about fighting for people to be able to, what, call themselves feminists while remaining in the good graces of patriarchy? then i feel like i got no choice but to oppose that shit as nothing but an especially perverse twist of the system itself.