when traditional religion lost its power to repress expressions of sexuality, it became necessary for feminism to step in and take up the slack, because for sexuality to be accepted and not transgressive is an intolerable insult to its nature and cries out for redress
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Replying to @chaosprime
Literally everyone I know who advocates for free expression of sexuality identifies as feminist, and there are a lot of us
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Replying to @lipandbone
sure. i identify as feminist. you, what, therefore want to defend the good name of all that is done in the name of feminism? because i'll tell ya for free, Meghan Murphy doesn't
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But you didn’t say “done in the name of feminism,” you talked about what feminism did
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Replying to @lipandbone
or i said that it became necessary for feminism to do it what would you say the difference is between feminism doing something and something being done in the name of feminism
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Replying to @chaosprime
The latter acknowledges more directly the diversity of perspectives under the banner; the former implies culpability of all those who ascribe to the banner
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Replying to @lipandbone
okay i specifically disclaim the idea that this is something every feminist or person subscribing to feminist ideas has done or would ever want to do
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also, since iirc i tweeted this while this exchange was ongoing it could look like a mean subtweet and it isn't, it's a quote of an unrelated SMS conversation from yesterday that i thought was funnyhttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1117508814092296200 …
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Replying to @chaosprime
I appreciate the thoughtfulness of clarifying that. It reads mostly like a self-drag to me
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