it annoys me NO FUCKING END when people think that liberalism is compatible with hatred of ‘the other’. the man-hating-feminist is a logical impossibility. you cannot claim that women deserve equal human rights while simultaneously decrying the validity of any woman (tattoed or pierced, wearing beauty products or not), man, or otherwise. the linked interview [...]

Radical feminist Sheila Jeffreys talks to Julie Bindel

it annoys me NO FUCKING END when people think that liberalism is compatible with hatred of 'the other'. the man-hating-feminist is a logical impossibility. you cannot claim that women deserve equal human rights while simultaneously decrying the validity of any woman (tattoed or pierced, wearing beauty products or not), man, or otherwise.

the linked interview is one of those things where you know that there's a logical extreme that invalidates the viewpoint, you just don't expect anyone to actually hold that view.

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