Any takers...
I nominate Megan Murphy (Posie would be interesting but a) she doesn’t want to be a representative of Feminism and b) I can imagine her getting rather exasperated with Blaire’s hair tossing!)
Luisa, when GC people/Feminists critique Blaire’s ‘performed femininity’ it’s not because Blaire is trans, or because Blaire is male, it’s because societal expectations relating to femininity have been used to control and oppress women since, well, forever.
The same critiques can be applied to anyone who utilises and exaggerates femininity and feminists have been talking about this since at least the 1970s. Dolly Parton and Kim Kardashian are two
examples. Dolly is particularly interesting, she’s incredibly clever, talented and philanthropic yet has spent much of her life being dismissed as little more than a pair of surgically enhanced tits.
Why do you think Dolly has chosen such an extreme appearance? What would she look like if she’d never had any surgical interventions? I have no idea what colour Dolly’s hair is, or was. Perhaps it’s grey now? Does Dolly even know? How different would Dolly’s life be if she’d kept to a more natural appearance? How different would Dolly’s life be if she had been born into the same large, poor, rural family but as a boy, not a girl?
Does any of this matter? Does any of this stuff ripple out and affect other individual women or society as a whole?
It doesn’t really matter if Blaire likes ‘feminists’ or not - I thought Blaire was too bright to generalise against millions in of people who share some ideas and aims but otherwise are from all sorts of backgrounds, but perhaps I overestimated?
I would never say I disliked ‘Conservatives’ or ‘Libertarians’. There are good people and bad people in all types of movements, all professions, all religions, all countries. Some good people even perform femininity 