"Quit Fucking Asking Me Questions: A Refresher Course"

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4. This comment from the replies there spells it out well.

there is a huge difference between the truly ignorant and the douchebag who uses it as a tactic to undermine feminist points of view. I felt like Lindy was addressing the latter here. I have had some pretty interesting exchanges with dudes who literally did not know what I was talking about until I took 17,000 steps back to explain it to them. There are a lot of mixed messages floating around about the extent to which the feminist project is completed and whether we live in a post-sexist world, so I can't blame people who would only be very mildly affected by feminism or sexism for their ignorance. They literally don't know what they don't know and you do have to point them in the right direction.

Others know exactly what they are doing and see feigning ignorance as a tactic to undermine feminist efforts. And they can fuck right off.

People in the other thread were talking about trusting women to know the difference.

Here's the thing though, even if they're wrong and they ignore some well meaning soul's expectation to be spoon fed some basic information, so what? Will the world end?

Why so much outrage over the fact that women might not be picture-perfect ambassadors for feminism?