What I hate about the intent argument is how anti-trans, anti-POC, anti-LGBT “feminists” who call themselves “allies” twist it up in knots so they can present as experts on those groups, and speak for us. Then, when we speak for ourselves, they first “other” us by viewing us as white, cis, het, etc. (because they are, and just like the world they criticize, they too see that as “default,” which is to say “person”), and then they lecture us on how WE need to deal with privilege and how WE should “check our privilege.”

What bull. Far as I’ve seen, the women using the “intent” argument are the most privileged assholes around. They literally live in a world where they are assured they’ll never come into contact with thoughts, concepts, or PEOPLE who challenge or criticize them. They are always right. To engage with them at all requires reading 3 years’ worth of blog entries (at minimum) to make sure all of their likes and dislikes and triggers and sore spots are known and committed to memory. They are strictly ableist and classist as well, making no allowances for people who have to earn a living, or have chronic illness, or have ADHD or another cognitive issue, and so who literally cannot afford to read 3 years’ worth of material.

Must be nice, sitting up on the throne of intent. Whether it’s Femonade or Sh*kesv*lle (I will not give a certain person the dignity of using my comment as fodder for stroking their own ego), or Scum-O-Rama, or anywhere else, it sure looks high and mighty up there.