#TellAFeministThankYou is trending on Twitter and the ensuing feminist lovefest is kind of making my Tuesday. Check out some highlights (both the good and the troll-liciously bad) and then go add your voice to the mix!
#TellAFeministThankYou Thx to male feminists who don’t let sexism slide @harikondabolu @jamiekilstein @jamilsmith @wkamaubell @chrislhayes
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) February 12, 2013
#TellAFeministThankYou 2 my mom for replacing “farmer & his wife” with “farmers” in books when I was a kid bc “she works on the farm too.”
— Rebecca Eisenberg (@ryeisenberg) February 12, 2013
#TellAFeministThankYou @shelbyknox For true solidarity & fighting just as FIERCELY in calling out privilege & racism. #SisterhoodIsPowerful
— Jasmine Burnett (@Blkfeminst) February 12, 2013
@sofiaquintero Thank you for your candor & sharing your personal experiences w/breast cancer & for being FIERCE! #TellAFeministThankYou
— jaz (@goddessjaz) February 12, 2013
#TellAFeministThankYou Thanks to all the feminists of color whose political frameworks+vision+action so often coopted w/out credit or kudos.
— Jennifer L. Pozner (@jennpozner) February 12, 2013
Feminists: Thanks for gently reminding me of my privileges as a man. This has made me more forgiving of white people. #TellAFeministThankYou
— Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) February 12, 2013
Sojourner Truth, for reminding us that not all women were treated with chivalry back in the day. #TellAFeministThankYou
— Jen Deaderick (@jendeaderick) February 12, 2013
#tellafeministthankyou to @hkearl & @stopstharassmnt for teaching my students about the anti #streetharassment movement
— Ileana Jiménez(@feministteacher) February 12, 2013
I’d like to #tellafeministthankyou for giving me so many people to thank that I have choice paralysis right now!
— Jaclyn Friedman (@jaclynf) February 12, 2013
#Tellafeministthankyou @fledglingfund @chickeneggpics for supporting such critical, #feminist and #humanrights #documentary projects
— THE LINE Campaign (@thelinecampaign) February 12, 2013
These were all wonderful and made me feel very warm and cuddly. But of course it wouldn’t be a discussion of feminism on Twitter if it didn’t bring out some HILARIOUSLY bad trolls, reproduced here for your amusement:
#TellAFeministThankyou for convincing men and women that self interest more important than interests of their children.
— Kelly Marie (@flyoverangel) February 12, 2013
#tellafeministthankyou for overreacting to every compliment and making a guy feel rapey for being polite
— Tim Stone (@Hairy_Dangler) February 12, 2013
#TellAFeministThankYou for saying you want equality, but really wanting to be superior.
— Tyson James ♠ (@TheTysonJames) February 12, 2013
And perhaps the saddest of all:
I wouldn’t #TellAFeministThankYou. They need to get back in the kitchen.
— Kristen Johnson (@SpecialllKayyy) February 12, 2013
Ohh internalized misogyny. You are motivating me to #tellafeministthankyou even more.
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