Letters to the Editor
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How do you respond to young women that see your blog, see how you treat men there
and then ask why they should substitute your dogma for the "patriarch's dogma" when all they want to do is live the independent life those second wave feminists fought for and mostly won?
I mean really Jessica, in late January you got all offended that Wendy McElroy said that feministing wouldn't call the Duke Rape a rape any more. What you were upset about was that she confused a commenter's opinion with your own, but what you wouldn't say was whether you actually believed the Duke rape was still rape.
Then when the charges were dropped entirely, your coblogger Samhita wrote a post saying the Duke students were not innocent, that the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence, that they deserved what they got, and even if they were innocent, well they were white, and so "they got a taste of how black men are treated EVERY DAY by the criminal justice system."
All they have to do is look at your blog, look at your behavior, look at Samhita's behavior, look at some of your favored commenters like Donna Darko and Ginmar and they can see for yourself the hate speech you spew and encourage.
They can see in your comments your authoritarian comment policy in which dissenters are mocked, called names, and banned. And they can wonder if that sort of bad-faith commenting policy is really the "safe environment" that women need.
I sure hope for the sake of feminism that none of those young would be feminists end up on your site.