The Burden of Knowledge

Does someone want to talk to you about how Sarah Palin is a feminist Role Model who just doesn’t fit feminist stereotypes?

Does someone want to whine about the massive sexism they thinks undermines boys’ achievement (it couldn’t possibly be macho ideals)?

Does someone want to carp at studying women’s literature and history?

Tell them that the burden of proof has been replaced with a burden of knowledge, and that burden’s on THEM.

Ask them to give some indication that they’re familiar with the word “feminist” beyond FOX and National Review’s pablumized vestigial memory of two things they read once about Betty Friedan.

See if they can name three feminist thinkers. That’s all, just three.

See if they can name two schools of feminist thought. That’s all, just two.

And then after the silence, tell them to shut the fuck up.