{"id":14831,"date":"2014-05-22T19:29:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14831"},"modified":"2014-05-22T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:32:11","slug":"feminists-without-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=14831","title":{"rendered":"Feminists without voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the New York Times ran an article<\/a> about the backlash after a young actress, in response to a reporter’s question, said she wasn’t a feminist. “No,” was her reply, \u201cBecause I love men, and I think the idea of \u2018raise women to power, take the men away from the power\u2019 is never going to work out because you need balance.\u201d <\/p>\n

The article went on to describe various reactions to this statement, the most common one being that the actress was starting from an incorrect definition of feminism.<\/p>\n

For example, Andi Zeisler said \u201cI don\u2019t care if people don\u2019t identify as feminist,\u201d but took issue with misinformation and the perpetuation of the idea that feminism is \u201cthis zero-sum game that if it elevates women, then it denigrates men. That\u2019s just wrong and has never been what feminism is about. That\u2019s the Fox News version of feminism.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what really struck me about the article was that everyone in it — the reporter and every person she talked to — was female. It apparently never occurred to her to speak with a single man.<\/p>\n

Like many other men I know, I am a feminist. Not only do I support equal pay for equal work, but I put effort into helping to remove gender barriers for young people who might want to work in computer science.<\/p>\n

Implying that you need to be a woman to be a feminist is just wrong. It’s a lot like saying that you need to be black to support civil rights.<\/p>\n

Think about how creepy and bizarre that last statement sounds. Such lazy thinking clearly separates and weakens us, and works against our efforts to work together in common cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today the New York Times ran an article about the backlash after a young actress, in response to a reporter’s question, said she wasn’t a feminist. “No,” was her reply, \u201cBecause I love men, and I think the idea of \u2018raise women to power, take the men away from the power\u2019 is never going to … Continue reading “Feminists without voices”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14831"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14834,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14831\/revisions\/14834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}