Why "fun feminism" should be consigned to the rubbish bin

[seabeyond]

167. i get the concept. i played it, too. i think we clearly show an example how the power was not

taken away thru the decade of owning these words and the slut walks, with how limbaugh used them and the rw use them as a weapon against women. when men as a whole (and i do believe this) still view sexually active women as sluts and not equal to them, the word cannot be de-powered.

a very real example i use is the gay community. they, too, have owned the words meant to be hurtful. de-powering them. and it works for some. but as a community as a whole those words are still used in such a hurtful manner, that they result in the deaths... suicides.... of our children being taunted by them. it is easy for those of us mature, confident, to say these words are no longer hurtful. but i remember recently reading a handful of articles of young women being taunted with slut and other insults and one in particular committing suicide.

this is not merely an intellectual exercise for me. it is a reality in our community that i see more fragile people enduring. and not always being successful coming out on the other end.

i think the experiment of depowering the words has majorly failed and we have had absolute examples of exactly that. i cant endorse that anymore.