![]() I was labeled a woman who doesn't play by the rules, who expects too much, who thinks far too highly of myself, by daring to believe I'm equal(Coughs)superior to a man. The feminist label was an accusation, it was an "F" word, and not a nice one. (Laughter) These days, I look at how women are treated the world over, and anger, in particular, seems like a perfectly reasonable response.īut back then, I worried about the tone people used when suggesting I might be a feminist. When I was younger, mostly in my teens and 20s, I had strange ideas about feminists as hairy, angry, man-hating, sex-hating womenas if those are bad things. So, what started as a bit of an inside joke with myself and a willful provocation, has become a thing. Or at least, I wrote an essay, and then I wrote a book called "Bad Feminist," and then in interviews, people started calling me The Bad Feminist. ![]() I'm a feminist, but I'm a rather bad one. I have passionate opinions about gender equality, but I worry that to freely accept the label of "feminist," would not be fair to good feminists. ![]() I am failing as a woman, I am failing as a feminist.
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