![]() Things went to hell, she believes, when men got the plough. You’d wonder, of course, how things got so bad for us women. ![]() The Guilty Feminist heartily supports them all. Placed throughout the book are question and answer interviews with a humbling array of fantastic women activists – from yoga teachers, to the Reclaim Holloway project, to the founder of the Istanbul Convention, to the amazing 18-year-old Amika George who fronts FreePeriod, an online resource set up by her for girls who have to skip school because they can’t afford menstrual products – astonishingly, in England. We’ve had 10,000 years of exclusion, says this guilty femme, and we’re going to bust that all down in less than a hundred? Please. It needs the oxygen of action.”Īctivism of every kind, is considered absolutely essential to Fifth Wavers. It wasn’t until the 1960s and the advent of the Pill, that freedom from male domination became a possibility again Time to stop loving ourselves as if we were “our dying grandmothers”, says Frances-White, and get out there and fight. It includes the 1960s and 1970s women’s movements where bras were burnt, consciousness was raised and everything about the patriarchy was questioned and the Third Wave, or “intersectionality” where the realities of being queer, black, broke or not able bodied had to be incorporated or feminism was just part of the patriarchy through the Fourth Wave and the explosion of the MeToo movement on social media. It incorporates all the efforts of all our foremothers who broke windows, who were force-fed in Holloway, were shunned by their horrified families. The Fifth Wave, believes The Guilty Feminist, is here, and is all about action. If you start saying only this woman, only that book, never that song, “we’re digging a tunnel from one prison yard to another”. By circumstance feminists are outsiders banded together in order to get in to make real progress, we must support each other – black, coloured, gay, trans, bi, working class. ![]() Hundreds of thousands of women agree with her: of course, it is! OutsidersĪs well as using wit to debunk the patriarchy and ourselves, the absolute bedrock of feminism, of civilisation, the author believes, is inclusion. It’s absolutely okay to be out on the hustings all day agitating for equality, then come home to a bottle of chardonnay and a romcom, or, heaven help us, crash out in front of Keeping up with the Kardashians. releasing them and any shame I carried for them, with it”. As the author puts it, start “owning my paradoxes and laughing at them. ![]() Fifth-wave feminism is just landing, it’s a beauty of a beast and is being surfed to shore by super smart young women like Frances-White, her co-creator Sofie Hagen, whose clever trope rests on the premise that feminism is back with a capital F, so now let’s start to play around a little and not make it One More Thing Women Need to Feel Guilty About. The little dweeb who told her at 15 she would never get a Jehovah husband as she was not “submissive” enough is hopefully now choking on crow. Miraculously she escaped to read English at Oxford – her objectives, to deconstruct the brainwashing suffered at the hands of the archetypal patriarchy, a religious cult: a subject/subjection we are finally beginning to interrogate here in Ireland. In some ways Deborah Frances-White, aka “The Guilty Feminist”, with her eponymous successful podcast – 20 million downloads in two years and counting – is an unlikely new torchbearer for the cause.Īustralian born, she was adopted as a baby and when she was 12 her parents joined the Jehovah Witnesses. ![]()
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