Surely that’s a message any decent person could get behind?Īlas, I was overoptimistic. And any teenage male nerds who read this blog, and who find themselves in a similar hole, will know that they too can get out without giving up on feminism. Not after they understand how I clung to those ideals through a decade when I wanted to die. But at least-and this is what matters-no one will ever again be able to question the depth of my feminist ideals. Two weeks ago, prompted by a commenter named Amy, I wrote by far the most personal thing I’ve ever made public-what’s now being referred to in some places as just “comment 171.” My thinking was: I’m giving up a privacy that I won’t regain for as long as I live, opening myself to ridicule, doing the blog equivalent of a queen-and-two-rook sacrifice.
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