i remember reading against our will for a feminist reading group like 25 years ago and thinking that it was racist and super dismissive to sexual violence in queer relationships. we will not be rehabilitating susan brownmiller’s legacy in this house
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there’s a vanity fair obit for her that frontloads her second wave bona fides, saves any mention of her being a racist victim-blamer for a couple hurried grafs at the end, and then calls her “an imperfect feminist heroine.” fuckin stop it, she sucks, she has always sucked
Felt like all thru the ‘10s there was a broad reaction to the third wave manifesting as a pronounced nostalgia for the second, which ofc the third wave itself developed in reaction to
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