In Response to a Now Deleted User Account
Rivka Wolf recently wrote an article I strongly disagree with. I challenged her article pretty heavily in the comments. Here’s the article if you want context to what follows here: https://medium.com/fourth-wave/princess-kates-son-slaps-her-in-public-57e1f26f138b
Right now, her article has about 1.5K claps and 40 comments. Most of the comments are push back on the article. Someone, a man, responded to one of my comments asking why I discounted her article as a feminist work considering she is a known feminist writer. That author has now deleted their user account before I had a chance to answer. It was a good, respectful question and one I felt many, particularly men somewhat perplexed by feminism, could benefit from. While I can’t tag that specific author anymore, I still see value in answering that question, so here we go…
His question had two main points:
- Why isn’t it a feminist article when it was in a feminist publication and written by a feminist author?
- Why doesn’t it count as a feminist article when there are no unifying principles of feminism anyway?
Alright. Well, the first one is easy enough. Princess Kate’s Son Slaps Her in Public was published under The Fourth Wave, a publication billing itself as feminist. When you look at the profile, the “About” tab says, “Changing the world for the better, one story at…
