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Feministas : Queens of controversy

Unsolicited Tip for the day: If you want to make a buzzzzzz in SM, write or say something controversial. Make sure there's an existing deep divide over that topic. In no time random people will be abusing you and each other.
In pop media, feminists have often been portrayed as men hating women with dorky glasses and probably a stache too. Why not, since men were creating/writing these characters. They must have been like I'm going to make the pretty ones dumb (she has got to be dumb for she has to love dbags) and not so pretty ones as intelligent and men hating creatures. Also add some annoying characteristic like a high pitch voice to the intelligent one. #foreveralonehenceafeminist
The feminist brand has been diluted, some on purpose and some accidental, to the extent that there's a negative connotation to it. The league of uber urban feminists are partly responsible for it with their frivolous issues. Free the nipples, glitter unshaved pits, sexual empowerment not excluding promiscuity, are few of the infamous ones. While I may shake my head in disbelief, or even laugh at some of them, I am immensely happy that there are a few women on this planet who were not killed in the womb, have not faced any sort of violence domestic or otherwise, probably had access to decent education & job opportunities. Their only problem in life is that they feel pressured to shave their armpits or sleep with only one partner or wear a bra outdoors. You go girl! These women don't want to be equal to men, but they want to be men. 
Honey men are dicks because they have one, what will be your excuse?

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