WaPo: Is this what an anti-feminist movement looks like?

[YoungDemCA]

A Tumblr called Women Against Feminism has been gaining traction on social media and provoking a variety of responses. The campaign features women holding photos of themselves with text explaining why they don’t need feminism. Similar musings have popped up on Twitter and Facebook, where the Women Against Feminism page boasts more than 16,000 likes.

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The Daily Beast zeroed in on the criticism in a post called “You Don’t Hate Feminism. You Just Don’t Understand It. Writer Emily Shire notes that “at it’s most core basic level, feminism is about equality between the sexes, not advancing one over the other.” Merriam-Webster certainly supports that definition, as does author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (as endorsed by Beyoncé).

Jessica Valenti, a prominent feminist writer and columnist for the Guardian, explored “the rise of the anti-feminist woman” in a column earlier this month:

"When men are against feminism, it’s frustrating, if ultimately predictable – groups with power have always been loathe to give it up. But when women come out against gender justice, it feels worse: no matter how fringe, the rise of the anti-feminist woman is not just baffling but a betrayal. Obviously “women” aren’t a monolith, and neither are the issues that they care about or believe in. But anti-feminist organizing is based on a deep hypocrisy and selfishness – an ideology built to assure conservative women that as long as they are doing just fine, other women will make do. And they’re putting up roadblocks to progress right in the middle of a renewed feminist awakening, with retrograde sexism that’s ultimately not too different than that of their male counterparts."

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