In The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, I show how two anti-feminist tactics often work in tandem, the minimisation of harm and the inflation of power. I wrote then, “Even to identify something as harmful is treated as an attempt to exercise or to hold power over someone, as if feminists make slights bigger than they are to make themselves bigger. This is how the terms and concepts introduced by feminists to explain how power works, such as sexual harassment, also become killjoys, carriers of bad feeling, impositions made by outsiders.” Those who critique power are also accused of just wanting power for ourselves. Moralism is mainly used as a character judgement as if those who refuse a sexual advance or refuse to participate in a sexualising culture are being rigid or uptight, wanting to deprive other people of joy because they are joyless.
—S.A.
That is why I am considered to want personal power.
Axé.
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