A while back, Sady Doyle wrote a brilliant post about, among other things, some “serious doubts” she was having about her “place in Internet Feminism”. She called out “that outraged, righteous, upright, know-it-all person who has compassion for all the right people and scorn for all the wrong ones, who’s on the right side (your side) of all the issues”  and named her “dangerous, and… at least partially false.” Essentially, she challenged us all to push our feminism beyond a place of certainty, smugness, black-and-white, and right-and-wrong.

I thought this was a brilliant analysis, not just for feminism but for society at large. In this wacky era of raving mad columnists and ill-informed pundits, we all could ...