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[michanna]

So the other day Navin called me a feminist. Now normally, fine, label me however you like. I find the need for labels more and more ridiculous lately, but I certainly don’t find that label insulting. In this particular case though, something within me cringed and this is, I think, why: His vision of me as a feminist is based entirely on the fact that I refuse to allow him to speak of women as objects in my presence. We are not conquests, we are people and it sickens me that what he wants is not a relationship, but a willing sex slave.
Any woman with any intelligence or even any pride would have the same objection to him that I do and all he’s doing by calling me a feminist is cheapening the label and I don’t want to be a party to that.
Now, I wish I’d been able to figure out why I was so horrified at the time so that I could have spat it back in his face.

Comments

[narikalen.livejournal.com]

Honey. Navim, for the two times I met him, seems like a chauvinistic pig. So, uh, why do you care what he calls you?

[michanna.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't really, I just couldn't figure out at the time why it made me angry since normally I'd consider it a compliment if someone said that to me.
As for why I spend so much time considering Navin's actions, I think it's because I've never met anyone like him before and I can't figure it out. I mean, how can he be so intelligent and not know that he's an ass? I can't figure out how it is that he actually exists ... Emily said the same thing once - that he was the comic relief in a bad romance movie and couldn't actually be a real person.
But yeah, I'm not really concerned, it's just that I have such a limited pool of human interaction.