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Helen Lewis in The Guardian

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justcly · 15/02/2020 10:49

www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/15/feminism-feminists-tyranny-niceness-complexity

Well worth a read.

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Gwynfluff · 15/02/2020 11:35

I thought it was a good piece. Though the bit about ‘older feminists’ believing in rigid gender roles is a bit of a misread of the second and third wave for me. Also anti union stuff was happening way before Thatcher, including by labour governments.

But I liked it as an antidote to ‘be kind’ (let your boundaries be overridden in my view) and liked the centring of respect.

xxyzz · 15/02/2020 11:16

Again, I think part of the Guardian's gentle reverse ferret going on.

Think they are starting to realise that they've annoyed a lot of their core market of left-wing feminists, so trying to up the feminist content but without also attracting too much ire from scary TRAs.

Better than where they were, but they've still got a long way to go.

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