Unproblematic women

Women are "problematic" by definition

It's not just certain women who are deemed problematic. It's the idea of debate and freedom of speech. It's the Enlightenment values which define Western democracies. This is a sustained attack waged by authoritarian zealots. The target is everyone who isn't compliant.

Women are "problematic" by definition; we challenge the dull boring old male-centric narrative, even dressed up in nominally-exciting and distracting "women's" trappings. That is the whole point of any kind of feminism worthy of the name.

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The curious language of the Robespierre faction reveals their authoritarian impulses. 'Problematic' refers to any opinion which has not been approved by the Newspeak dictionary division. It also refers to questions which the #no debate squad can't answer. That includes everything beyond the simplistic slogans which comprise the new orthodoxy. Another Newspeak term is 'delegitimise' which also refers to questions which can't be answered or facts that are problematic. The Robespierre faction want total narrative control. They want silence and submission. They can't defend their incoherent ideology against even the most tremulous challenge. The only appropriate response? F#ck that for a game of soldiers.

I remember about ten years ago, the word "inappropriate" was very popular. It served the same kind of purpose - it's there as moral censure but dressed up so it doesn't sound quite as puritanical as saying something is bad or wicked.

It's interesting because if I knew nothing about the context this term 'unproblematic women' was being used in I think it would conjure a vision of extreme religious ideology - something akin to tenets of Evangelism or Islam.

I hate the word “problematic” and all other critical social justice theory bollocks that just means “anything I don’t like and would like to complain about without providing a coherent argument”.

I just popped into twitter (mistake, what a shit hole it is), clicked on #IStandWithJKRowling and got presented with a bunch of “unproblematic women” to like instead of JK, who are all men pouting at the camera.

Who are the women who they deem ‘unproblematic’?

Ugh, just had a look on Twitter. That is awful - I aspire to be a problematic woman.

Just retweeted someone say "Stop calling us Karen. Call us bitches. You know you want to" which just about sums up the woman-hating atmosphere of public life at the moment.

And now "problematic". I may have to take to drink ...

Helen Lewis has written a book about this. Difficult Women. It's good.

Every time I see the word "problematic" I roll my eyes and stop reading.

"Well behaved women rarely make history" and all.