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iris27

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16. So, what, I am untrustworthy today, but automatically become so tomorrow (my 30th birthday)?
Sun Feb 26, 2012, 06:42 PM
Feb 2012

We have enough divisions in feminism without adding more. The feminist blogosphere has reached incredible numbers of women, and it is largely run either by women under 30, or those who are over 30 now, but were younger when they started their sites.

Edited to add: Just because the author was a jackass to older people in her own youth, doesn't mean all younger people are the same. As someone who's been fat for most of my 20's, I've been the one explaining the way that women who aren't deemed "fuckable" by the patriarchy are rendered invisible to the same. Those who have been most befuddled by that concept are women who are older, but still considered "hot" by virtue of slender bodies and extreme devotion to their appearance.

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