Sigh, my happy feminist vibe didn't last long then....

[AnnieLobeseder]

So I've been having a happy feminist week, buoyed up the successes of the #FBrape campaign and Chime for Change (Laura Bates is my hero ). It was so wonderful to to hear good news on my various feminist feeds for a change.

But since then, here on MN, I've been arguing debating with women who think that a woman whose husband refuses to do any housework should just STFU and get on with doing it herself, and who think that because men are physically stronger, this means that women are inferior and there's no point in trying to achieve equality in any area (even ones where physical strength is completely irrelevant).

Sigh. While victories are lovely, it doesn't take long for reality to set back in, does it?

dr Who should stay a man. if he became a woman she'd lose her sonic screwdriver and keep worrying about whether she had the right shoes on. she'd get zapped by a dalek while putting her lipstick on.

My crap moment came listening to Radio 4 and a discussion around the rights of disabled men to sexual encounters. I know that there is a genuine discussion to be had on this issue but the guy recounting his experience visiting a brothel in Spain made it sound as if it was a wonderful, intimate occasion with the classic happy hooker. And he genuinely didn't get that women's bodies shouldn't be provided on demand as part of a mental and physical healthcare exercise.

I don't know if I was upset for him for his deluded belief that it was a warm, genuine, interaction between two people with equal standing or upset with him for being so bloody entitled. The whole section was about righting the injustice that the disabled faced and no-one thought to examine the fact that his way of fixing this involved enshrining the right of a man to use a woman's body in a soulless financial transaction that we should all be happy to fund.