Not ten days after the Washington Post credited Kellyanne Conway for Merriam-Webster making "feminism" their word of the year, CNN is running a piece (to which I am not linking, but it's easy enough to find if you are so inclined) with the appalling headline: "In 2017, Trump Revived Feminism, Saved Satire, and Reinvigorated Journalism."
I'm sure that satirists and journalists are none too happy about that headline, either, but I'll leave that to them to sort out. Naturally, I'm primarily concerned with the claim that Trump "revived feminism."
And are you freaking kidding me with this trash, @CNN? pic.twitter.com/9jSGyYw44X
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 21, 2017
I have seen Donald Trump, a patriarchal white supremacist serial sex abuser, be given more credit for energizing feminist activism than was given to Hillary Clinton, a trailblazing feminist who became a historic female presidential candidate.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 21, 2017
I am sick to my fucking teeth of women having credit stolen from us and handed to men, especially in the way that casts men's misogyny and abuse as our primary motivator.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 21, 2017
This framing is disgusting. And I am tired of seeing mainstream political press indulging it. STOP. The narrative that we have abusive men to "thank" for feminist advocacy and activism is part of the goddamned problem.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 21, 2017
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