I get that many roll their eyes when i discuss Feminism. (HOLD ON TO YOUR PANTS when you see the book I’m working on, “The Faith-Fueled Feminist.”) They roll their eyes because I don’t conform to the newly agreed upon rhetoric (which is a BREACH from the fundamentals of the Feminist movement, as an aside.)
I don’t LOOK or TALK like “most feminists.”
I also don’t look like most home schoolers,
I don’t look like most non-vaxxers.
I am many things.
But because I am an ACCURATE thinker,
because I am a CRITICAL and FREE thinker,
I am very very very rarely
exceptionally rarely
surprised.
So, AS a feminist,
who has STUDIED Gloria Steinem
AND the feminist movement for decades,
I was OF COURSE not surprised by her signing the OPEN LETTER RAILING AGAINST:
— cancel culture, AND
— the restriction of debate.
So, you “proper feminists” out there, 
THIS cancel culture is not / should not be in our nature.
Name calling SHUTS down conversation,
and therefore,
it shuts down PROGRESS.
So, when you post something that SAYS OUTRIGHT
that people are WEAK MINDED or have LOW IQs if they disagree (to AnY degree) with what YOU believe,
this is ANTI- what feminists have fought for for years before I was born.
We stand on the shoulders of GIANTS,
and as they didn’t need the world to AGREE with them,
to keep doing their work….
neither do we.
I love that Steinem added to this call for US
to get back to TOLERANCE,
Tolerating another view
besides our own.
Stay open, woman.
Being open to non-judgemental conversation..
to other perspectives without making them WRONG,
to understanding your fellow sister…
is a sign of STRENGTH,
which — as a reminder —
is KEY to the cause.
