The Duke Feminist Police profile a recent campus event. According to Shadee Malaklou, all those raging campus “feminists” are secretly just patriarchy-reproducing “femmes.” Because, you know, you can’t be both feminine and feminist at the same time without being a “crazed schizophrenic.”
…like crazed schizophrenics with split personalities, we constantly fool ourselves into thinking we can be raging feminists in the classroom by day and girly femmes at the bar by night-that we can be both and that we can have it all.
Fortunately feminists on campus avoided “one mention of the infamous L-word” after performing self-styled feminist monologues. Thank goodness! Wouldn’t want to think there were any LESBIANS in the crowd! (Oh Shadee, if you only knew…) But unfortunately the feminists still didn’t get by without oppressing themselves, by performing a monologue about wanting to wear a dress and look pretty. Shadee, have you ever heard of something called the male gaze, something called re-claiming what looks good and feels good, something called all women have the right to wear whatever they want whenever they want without attracting sexist attention (which is often different from respectful attraction) or violence? Also, “femme” is a lesbian identity, not a slang term for “pretty pretty princess.”
If anyone has created a piece of patriarchy, it’s truly you Shadee.
