We Need Feminism because ...

My contributions to the ongoing “We need feminism because …” campaign seen in many places on the internet.



We need feminism because bureaucracies must self-perpetuate. A lot of cushy, well-paid jobs depend on it.

We need feminism because common sense is so pre-modern.

We need feminism for relief from the many real and serious problems in the world.

We need feminism ... because I say so.

We need feminism because, with the decline of Nazism and Stalinism, the world needs more political “isms.”

We need feminism to give political support to False Memory Syndrome.

We need feminism because quotas have always been a force for good.

We need feminism because sexual equality is unfair to women.

We need feminism because in politics, many women care only about themselves, and they need a voice.

We need feminism because at our age, nostalgia for a mythologized past is all many of us Baby Boomers have left.

We need feminism because there shouldn't be only one “f-word” in the dictionary.

We need feminism because civilization was getting boring anyway.

We need feminism because weak women need an intellectual ghetto where they can feel safe.

We need feminism because Eve was right all along.

We need feminism because I have to finish this sentence somehow.

We need feminism because even bad ideas must be heard, or we cannot be sure of hearing the good ideas when they come along.

We need feminism because Gaea commands it.

We need feminism because without it, some might still be tempted to take the left seriously.

We need feminism because it gives a lot of bored rich women something to do with all their free time.

We need feminism because it may not be very bright, but it's cute ... and easy to lay.

We need feminism because too many princesses are still oppressed by too many peas.

We need feminism because the richer you are, the more needs you have.

We need feminism because holes in the head are not really medically advisable.

We need feminism because without it, how would we have known that fish need bicycles?

We need feminism because this placard says so.

We need feminism because without it, “women’s studies” would require actual study.

We need feminism because it allows women the intellectual equivalent of preening themselves in a mirror. Forever.

We need feminism because it is more supportive than realityism.

We need feminism because it validates our bitchy moods.

We need feminism because don’t you dare even ask.

We need feminism because it is more fun than femennonism.


Happy to help.