Joni:
"I am absolutely not a feminist. I prefer the company of men to women,
always have. And I'm constantly lumped in with women with whom I don't
belong."
Sigh. Damn her hide anyway.
Obviously she doesn't know what the dictionary definition of a
"feminist" is. And for a woman of her intelligence, I am surprised, I
admit it! And frankly, being a feminist, or not, has dick-all to do with
whether you prefer the company of men over the company of women.
Now if Joni were to say she believed women were inferior to men, or that
she did not believe they deserved social and economic equality, okay,
I'd agree with her when she says she isn't a feminist. But that girl's a
feminist through and through, deny it all she will. She's put more than
one chauvinistic humanoid in his place, I'll wager, and we all know Joni
doesn't believe that she's inferior to anyone in any way because she's
female and he's male. Nope. Feminist.
I think what she's getting at is that she does not personally have any
desire to wage war on men. It's unfortunate that feminism has this idea
attached to it. Maybe it was necessary at one time -- the militant
aspect, the anger -- but it is certainly not what equality is all about,
is it?
Kate du Nord
