*(and honestly, if someone has a media profile and resources to do so why shouldn’t he be doing that anyway, and I’m sure it did his marketing angle no harm)

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Nasty is assuming that men have rights by default, but that women need to work for their rights.

Nasty is suggesting that women who have hairy armpits don’t represent “real” feminists.

Nasty is implying that lesbians are guilty of hijacking the feminist movement.

Nasty is telling women that they should forgo frivolous entertainment while placing no similar demands on men.

Nasty is making an untrue assumption that all men with daughters are feminists, and then telling women that they’re not up to task because they do not meet this imaginary standard.

Nasty is ignoring all the activism that women do every day in order to lecture women about how politically disengaged they are.

And I choose to respond to this Nastiness by mocking it mercilessly to show how stupid it is. I’m not going to ignore it just because de Brito has done good things too.

I certainly hadn’t seen it. It sounds like a most worthwhile mentoring program, and good on Sam de Brito for founding it.

The fact that he’s capable of commendable activism on behalf of indigenous youth doesn’t make him perfect or beyond criticism when he makes an arse of himself with respect to feminism though. His column contains several statements which are simply factually incorrect and which indicate that although he probably does want some feminist goals to be advanced in our society, he still has a long way to go with feminist analysis and self-examination too. He’s only half got it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thu60-YB_Yg&feature=channel_page

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Opening the Sun Herald and seeing him lauded as “Feminism’s new (deep) voice” made me choke on my toast.

That’s good. That part struck me as really odd; you know, like reality had gone topsy turvy and I was the last to know. But then, pretty much the whole article left that impression on me.
I mean, apparently fathers are to be considered feminists if they have a daughter – that’s it – but the mothers of those daughters and the daughters themselves, well, THEY must prove they’re WORTHY and have to EARN it, dammit! By working hard to meet criteria which are directly at odds with each other.

Shaun, I totally reject the whole “but what if it were YOUR daughter?” trope. It reeks of paternalism. Appealing to men to see women as humans on the grounds that some of those women belong to *them* is WRONG.