Maisie Williams on using the term feminists

I feel like she has too much free time on her hands with no work.

i dont disagree with that

That’s my girl!

Werk

I understand the sentiment but feminist is still a political movement and the fight for gender equality does not need to be rebranded or distanced from political discourse in this way in order to be respected. People have tried that before (see the 90s and 2010s) and in the long term it just doesn’t work out. 

There’s also so many different strands of feminism (some many would not consider in any way feminist) that this kind of very black and white way of thinking/flattening of all gender equality based ideologies irritates me a bit.

Hmmm, I think I understand her point but I see being a feminist as different to just not being sexist.

Ooh yes!! I’ll be adopting this.

I’ve always hated that trend in the latest wave of feminism where everyone went around saying that being a feminist is the standard position of wanting equal rights for all genders. No, it’s not. Feminism is activism. So many people who aren’t activists (or worse, have been sexually inappropiate towards women) spewed that nonsense and that helped us get into the liberal feminism mess we’re in now. There is a majority state of mind by which the person doesn’t question much, below that is downright sexism, and above that is feminism. If everyone who is in the middle of that 3 layer landscape thinks they’re on the top layer, then their passiveness and sometimes complicity stalls change and revolution.

[sure but this quote is from 10 years ago](https://time.com/4284168/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-feminist/), at least include that context if you’re going to share it, this isn’t new/breaking news

Why not both

The problem with that is when someone asks you if you’re a feminist, and you respond to ask them to define feminism, everyone gives a different answer.

I don’t care what she has to say after her historically inaccurate and false statements on witchcraft and witches on the View.

I am not a fan of these pseudo-intellectual witchcraft takes such as:

1. Only women were witches(wrong men were witches too and often in places like Iceland, Russia, and the Baltics male witches were more tried and killed than women)

2. Witchcraft is not just looking for a cute aesthetic. It is very spiritual!

3. Witchcraft is not about being petty and gossipy. It is diving and reading the stars, communing with spirits and deities, etc

4. It is not a fit hobby for larpers or those who just want to stick it to Christianity. You can do that without trying to call yourself a witch when you don’t actually believe in it or practice it.

Yes, but that also switches it to be more passive than active. I am actively trying to promote feminism and gender equality, my goal isn’t to be “normal” and retain the status quo. Most “sexist” people are either pulling back on progress or droning on with the system in place

We’re not there yet sis