The people on this board hoping that they can turn the tide of public opinion are expecting an awful lot of work from women, all of whom have other things to do.
Even if we had any wish to take sides, in order to do so we’d need to watch dozens of videos, read thousands of blog words, research people’s lives and careers, find and read old Twitter streams, and basically devote tens of hours to a project none of us have any interest in.
I think, like most women on FWR, I drop in and out when I have time. Nobody keeps a detailed log of who said what about who and when. It’s a lot of physical and emotional labour to expect of a few thousand random women on the internet.
And what if we did all that and came back with some kind of judgement? What would it matter? A big, fat, fucking zero, because there is no organised cabal, no leadership team, no organisational structures to progress complaints. There is no super-secret-feminist-ninja-illuminati using FWR as a front. Sadly.
Just a bunch of women worried about their rights.
It might provide fleeting satisfaction to some obsessive posters (or not), but that’s it.
I come back to my point about female socialisation and the expectation that women be nice. Men in positions of power regularly and robustly say dreadful things about each other and it is seen as business as usual.
Women criticise each other, rightly or wrongly, and we’re all expected to throw ourselves on our swords in expiation.
It’s annoying and silly and distracts us from the work we should be doing.