{"id":9778,"date":"2016-11-23T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9778"},"modified":"2019-12-24T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:00:43","slug":"being-feminist-is-not-a-shield-against-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/23\/being-feminist-is-not-a-shield-against-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Being feminist is not a shield against criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2776,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.robot-hugs.com\\\/badge&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190922131745\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.robot-hugs.com\\\/badge\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-05 01:15:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 08:52:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 08:52:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robot-hugs.com\/badge\/\" title=\"Robot Hugs: Badge\">Robot Hugs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Feminism doesn\u2019t give you a shield, it makes you a work in progress. Feminism shouldn\u2019t protect you from criticism, it should give you the tools to critique yourself.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I consider myself to be a feminist \u2014\u00a0but as with all such things, I endeavor to recognize that I\u2019m far from perfect; that I can, do, and will make mistakes; and when I do, I need to own up to them and try to avoid doing so in the future. Being on the side of women (or people of color, or Muslims, or Jews, or LGBTQ+, or any other marginalized or oppressed population and the intersections among them) doesn\u2019t mean I can say \u201cBut I\u2019m one of the good ones!\u201d when someone calls me out on something; instead, it means I have the responsibility of recognizing when I\u2019ve failed in that goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m far from perfect; I can, do, and will make mistakes; and when I do, I need to own up to them and try to avoid doing so in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-9778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}