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This is apparently the "new" type of feminism: Spoiled brat feminism.
Amanda seems to want the unlimited right to take unlimited verbal stabs at anyone or any group she pleases, all with a mocking smirk on her face, but without the world negatively responding to her. In other words, no one can do back to her what she does to other people and groups.
The image that comes to mind is an out-of-control adolescent girl who says the most vile things to people, all as snotty as can be, and then starts crying when she finally gets a response. Then she's a victim. Just a poor little helpless girl that people are being mean to for no reason at all.
I also don't really get all the fuss about her - she has a very limited bag of rhetorical tricks: Take childish, mocking stabs at groups she doesn't like, put words in the mouths of people - things they never said - in fact not even getting the facts right in many cases (like Duke), and build up strawmen and then knock them down. All tricks that many 13-year-old girls have. She just has to work a bit more on rumor-spreading then she's ready to be the drama queen at a junior high.
