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Esther Spurrill-Jones

Nov 18, 2017·1 min read

While I do consider myself a feminist, any group that insists on blindly toeing the party line is not a group I want to be part of. I cannot stand it when I hear the oft-repeated line “a REAL [fill in the blank]…”

Esther Spurrill-Jones

Poet, lover, thinker, human. https://thewordartist.net

…n have to have convictions as firm as antiabortion feminists to be counted out of today’s movement. All it takes to get exiled is to not affirm the party line loudly enough. And for any movement seeking to advance the cause of women as a whole, that’s a problem.

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