PostSecret
I have a postcard posted on PostSecret this week, and that kind of makes me giggle, but this one just makes me sad. It's hard to read the handwriting behind the image, but it seems like it just unfairly blames a lot of things on feminism, like the alleged rise in popularity of the one-night stand. Depressing.

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I saw that too. I'm obsessed with postsecret. It made me pretty angry, actually. Postecret reaches such a wide and varying audience- and what do they see, but another misrepresentation of feminism.
Yeah, I just saw that one. Is it just me, or does Postsecret seem to feature anti-feminism cards with fair regularity? I can't remember any specific ones, but I seem to recall it happening before.
That can be read in more than one way. I guess it might be my assumptions about who sent in that postcard. I think it was sent in by a woman who might be new to what feminism is. She might be intrigued by what she's learning, but also scared about what she's finding out about our society. I don't know about anyone else, but I was felt both thankful and scared about what I was learning. Before knowing about feminism, she might have been less aware about the pervasive sexism in our society. She notices the double standards and doesn't know which way to go. She might have had a one-night-stand with someone and doesn't know whether she should feel filthy or liberated. The dominant culture says she should feel one way, while the feminist subculture might be telling her to feel the other way. Before feminism, she would have felt filthy about having a one-night-stand, but at least she wouldn't have felt conflicted. And if she talked to most people about her feelings, she would have been validated in her feelings of shame. Most people would think those shameful feelings are normal, and they would have reinforced traditional sexist stereotypes. When I first got into feminism, I sort of felt like it was better not knowing how our society was set up to always be against me and other women. Ignorance is bliss, right? Maybe that's what this person who sent in the postcard is thinking.
All I can make out from the handwriting on the back of that postcard is 'there is nobody to love me because men have developed the idea that one night stands are standard' and 'chivalry is dead and angry women killed it' which is kind of ignorance about the feminist movement that makes me sad.