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Lesbian feminism breaks new ground in post #MeToo France
Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2021-05-02 17:32
Article here. Excerpt:
'But there has also been a backlash. Philosopher Elisabeth Badinter, a veteran universal feminist voice, denounced in an article for the Journal du Dimanche last September an emerging "hatred of men" and "warlike neofeminism".
When journalist and local politician Alice Coffin's essay "The Lesbian Genius" came out in September, there was an outcry among France's political class, mostly due to one passage.
"It's not enough to help one another, we have to erase (men) from our minds, from our pictures, from our representations," Coffin wrote.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo responded: "I've spent my life fighting for equal rights for women, not for supremacy, including of women over men."'
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No real news here
Lesbian separatism's been around since Moses. It's come in various forms but it's just being warmed over for today's times.
The danger is that it now has a political platform.