You call yourself a feminist but you don’t recognize other identities that play into marginalization.
You call yourself a feminist yet you mock guys who aren’t “manly enough.”
You call yourself a feminist and fight for women to be dominant over men.
You call yourself a feminist but do not consider Trans Women to be a part of the feminist discourse.
You call yourself a feminist while calling other women sluts, whores, bitches, and hoes.
You call yourself a feminist yet mock women you consider prude.
You call yourself a feminist and don’t want to “ be like those others girls.”
You call yourself a feminist and make sweeping generalizations about all men or all women.
You call yourself a feminist but you tear down other women if their actions don’t synch up with your perception of how things should be.
You call yourself a feminist and you don’t try to empower other women.
You call yourself a feminist but the intersections of race, gender, socioeconomic class, and ethnicity elude you.
You call yourself a feminist because you have some women friends, so of course that makes you a feminist.
You call yourself a feminist, but are you really pushing for a better society? Between saying you only fight for all women and not wrapping your head around the idea that all women have identities beyond their womanhood. When saying you’re a feminist, make sure you consider the other identities many women have, because saying you fight for women’s rights and really only fight for the rights of White, cisgender, hetersexual, middle-class women, does a disservice for all other women.
You call yourself a feminist, but…