![]() They burn their bras!” No one has ever burned their bra. Young girls will be like, “I don’t want to be a feminist. It’s always, always trotted out, but I’ve never, never met anybody like that and I doubt you have.Īnd you have to deal with it in conversation sometimes, and be like, “Yes, I’m sure somebody ruined your life, and she was exactly like this, and it went down exactly that way, and I’m sorry it hurt.” It’s kind of a bogeyman in a different way, because not only have I never met any of them but it’s an image that legitimately scares young people away from the idea of feminism. Those man-hating, dick-chopping feminists exist, and in fact, one ruined my life.” And you’re like, oh, OK, well, I have to address this. And it’s one of those things where, even if you want to ignore it, you can’t, because people will say, “Well, those people exist. ![]() Usually when you talk about feminism, this image shows up, whether you like it or not, of the kind of militant, horrible, awful characters. They came from having a lot of conversations about feminism online. Speaking of the magic of the internet, can you tell me where the Straw Feminists (a pair of hairy-legged, bra-burning misandrists) came from? But the magic of the internet is that people can find out. Do you ever decide not to include something because it’s too obscure? ![]() ![]() There are a lot of jokes in Hark! A Vagrant that come from small, ironic incidents from Canadian or American history. ![]()
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