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Jenny Lindsay's avatar

I was receiving increasingly frustrated texts from a friend who was at that event... It sounded bloody awful. My poem The Schism Ring was about this kind of thing in the literary arts, where so many 'women' focused events routinely descended into trite ageism, dismissing all of the feminism of the past, and just a real lack of actual knowledge of feminism, or even of politics really. Young, female poets seemed to think that simply by virtue of getting on a stage that this made them feminists who were 'fighting the patriarchy', only for most of them to then indulge in a bit of 'kill yer mothers' when the opportunity to hound me happened. Interesting piece, Nina. Thanks for writing it!

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Allison's avatar

A so-called feminist calling an actual feminist a “50 year old Karen” just completely exposes the twisted misogyny of these people. It’s something you’d expect a male football thug to say. They are absolutely vile!

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