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Re:What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused? by patrickg_zill on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:20PM (#17762013)
A woman who started the very first DV shelter in the world, then was ostracized by the entirety of mainstream feminism for stating forbidden truths.

This isn't a debate between 2 equal factions, as you've seemed to cast it: it was a Stalinist style purge of all who didn't hold the correct opinions; with the same people who committed the purge, still in control today.

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Re:What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused? by moate on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:37PM (#17762141)
A group of people did a bad thing to a lady. There were many people in the group and they had more power/agency which they leveraged against this lady for reasons I can only speculate on because I wasn't really alive at the time or invited to the meetings. In all likelihood I wouldn't get along very well with these people. They're part of a group I don't consider myself associating with.

I'm still a feminist, and I still don't understand why I can't be a feminist and also believe the story I just told. The fact that "mainstream feminism" ostracized Pizzey has nothing to do with my personal beliefs. I guess I'm not a mainstream feminist?

Is this mainstream?: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/01/19/feminism-inte...

This is pretty close to me.

FWIW, I think very few people exist as absolutes but typically shades of grey. IDK what "good" or "bad" people are anymore, just good or bad actions. Promoting equality is something I find to be a good action. That is what I feel feminism represents (or should represent, or represents to me).

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