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

[Prism]

252. Radicalism works, until it doesn't

Speaking from an LGBT perspective because it's what I'm most familiar and comfortable with, I will never look down upon what the queer radicals of decades past accomplished. They literally shotgunned the community into mainstream society and made people see what the AIDS epidemic was doing when polite society, the media, and government were all too ready to look the other way. Those radicals did an invaluable and irreplaceable service. Every single LGBT individual who comes out to find a more tolerant and accepting society owes inexpressible gratitude to those radicals.

However, that said.

The strain of radicalism that eventually morphed into a hatred of "assimilation" is no good. It's damaging. It is now actively harmful to LGBT youth who want nothing more than to be considered no different from their heterosexual friends and family.

The trap of radicalism is that it can and often does go too far to the point that it has out-lived all practicality and usefulness. Bindle goes too far in too many ways. I would say she is now falling more on the side of opposing female sexual liberation than supporting it. Reading her words and other articles she's written, she really almost comes off as a sexual martinet. Sometimes people who fight for freedom forget that freedom means there are going to be a lot of people out there who do things with it that you may not personally approve of. This is very much the case with Bindle. From all appearances, she doesn't seem to be fighting for women's liberation as much as she's fighting for The Freedom To Behave as Bindle Wants You To.

But that is no freedom at all.