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    HermioneStrangerRebecca "Burt" Rose
    6/04/14 9:15pm

    Gender equality just isn't everyone's passion, and y'all are gonna have to learn to make your peace with that instead of picking on people for it. It's fine, really! I bet many of you are just bored to tears by environmental activism, or by trying to find a cure for cancer, or economic justice, or whatever other causes we're all supposed to support are out there.* People have different passions in life, and the key isn't to try to make every single person out there super passionate about your thing, it's to get the people who are passionate about it to do the best jobs they can. People who aren't passionate about it just creates a too many cooks in the kitchen issue.

    Besides, she goes on to talk about "SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities", which is confusing but I'm going to take that to mean she's a giant nerd who wishes she could be a crewmember on the USS Enterprise. So she's a female celeb who's talking about how cool science and space exploration and learning about different species is. How is this a bad thing? Or is it just that girls aren't supposed to like science before they've embraced the feminist label? I think she sounds hilarious and delightful and I'd share a bottle of wine with her.

    *And, you know, maybe a bunch of super privileged straight white ladies who think growing out all the body hair is more empowering than affordable housing do not have a leg to stand on in judging other people for not being passionate about causes we are all supposed to support. People who live in glass houses, and all that.

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      EmptyNumberHermioneStranger
      6/04/14 9:31pm

      Can I recommend your comment infinity times? More people need to read it and think for a second that "Maybe when I think about other people I'm actually thinking that they should be just like me."

      Lana would be among the first to tell you the Earth revolves around the sun, not your ego.

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      VendettiLadyMorganHermioneStranger
      6/04/14 9:33pm

      I dunno. I'm a person of color and if I said that "Oh you know anti-racism and civil rights, it's like watching paint dry amirite?" I think people would be understandably pissed. She's building her dumbass career and persona on some antiquated feminine icons though so I'm not really shocked.

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    portraithatRebecca "Burt" Rose
    6/04/14 9:09pm

    Oh, PLEASE. Like we can't do BOTH. IT'S CALLED STAR TREK: VOYAGER and also the FUTURE. SPACE FEMINISM, LADIES, FEMINISM IN SPACE. WOMEN GET TO WEAR SHINY SILVER JUMPSUITS ALL DAY WHILE DRIVING SPACESHIPS AND AIN'T NOTHING ANY MAN OR MALE ALIEN CAN DO ABOUT IT. GET WITH IT, LANA.

    Sorry for all the caps but Space Feminism is something I feel very strongly about.

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      Wolfabeastportraithat
      6/04/14 9:28pm

      SPACE FEMINISM!!!!

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      marydnathomeportraithat
      6/04/14 9:35pm

      Voyager sucked. DS9 is fine. :P

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    CBGRebecca "Burt" Rose
    6/04/14 9:12pm

    I just saw this Keira Knightley quote and I will post it:

    "There is an under-representation of our stories, just as there is an under-representation of us in politics and in business and everywhere. That's what feminism is [to me] right now – the recognition that we are still not equal. I absolutely love guys. I love hanging out around them – well, not all of them, some of them are d**kheads – but you know, the ones that I love, I love. But you have to recognize that the playing field isn't even yet, and it does have to be even. And you can still like clothes."

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      chundi2CBG
      6/04/14 9:20pm

      Keira Knightley seems so smart and cool. I love that she included the bit about loving men because so many celebrities seem to use that as a rationale for not being feminists - as if those two things are mutually exclusive.

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      Emma GolddiggerCBG
      6/04/14 9:23pm

      That's a great quote. I hope it doesn't mean I have to start liking Kiera Knightley now, though.

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    duchessofnutsRebecca "Burt" Rose
    6/04/14 9:03pm

    She went on to say, "I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities."

    GIF
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      Basic Bitchduchessofnuts
      6/04/14 9:10pm
      GIF
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      John Boehnerduchessofnuts
      6/04/14 9:10pm

      I hate it when people I love read NYT nonfiction bestsellers/spend a few hours drunk on Wikipedia and then say shit like that :(

      (I want science to be more accessible to everyone, but please don't dismiss feminism and then mutter that garbage in the same breath.)

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    Jigglypuff.Rebecca "Burt" Rose
    6/04/14 9:09pm

    I understand. It's hard to focus on feminism and other mundane things when you're busy fantasizing about being choked by an alien on an intergalactic spaceship.

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      BecauseOfReasonsJigglypuff.
      6/04/14 9:12pm

      This made me literally laugh out loud. Guffaw, even. Thank you for that.

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    ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDRebecca "Burt" Rose
    6/04/14 9:50pm

    I dunno, I'm not super duper interested in feminism *shrug*

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      HermioneStrangerʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      6/04/14 11:33pm

      Oh, come on - I know you can troll better than that. You doing ok? Do you need an internet hug, or a cookie?

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      ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDHermioneStranger
      6/05/14 12:42am

      I need like 20 dicks in me.

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    AndreaRulez6Rebecca "Burt" Rose
    6/04/14 9:27pm

    So every woman who exists MUST be interested in feminism? She didn't say something stupid about it. She simply said she wasn't interested. Feminists honor a woman's right to make her own choices, no? So shouldn't LDR be allowed to choose not to be interested in feminism? And dumbing down her SpaceX interest by saying that she's thinking about "living on Mars" is really unfair, and makes you sound bitter. She didn't say anything stupid about space either. As women, we are often told - by both genders - how a woman SHOULD be, or SHOULD look, or SHOULD sound. A really great way to honor the women in your life and women in general is to let them be free to make their own choices, including whether or not to give a shit about feminism.

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      MissGenXAndreaRulez6
      6/04/14 11:01pm

      It's confusing to some people because honestly, the idea that women as a class can and should be as empowered as men doesn't seem that radical or hard to get behind. Maybe it's not your hobby or your career, but why would you be unsupportive of it?

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      HermioneStrangerMissGenX
      6/04/14 11:36pm

      Yeah, but she didn't say she wasn't supportive of it. She just said it bored her, which doesn't tell us anything about how she would end up voting. And we don't know the question(s) that prompted her response - they may well have been asking her to opine on some feminist issue, and she was trying in her own way to say, "go ask a feminist theorist or activist, how's about we talk about science instead?"

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    WolfabeastRebecca "Burt" Rose
    6/04/14 9:26pm

    "For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept. . . Whenever people bring up feminism, I'm like, god. I'm just not really that interested." She went on to say, "I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities."

    This is kind of Way Harsh, Tai, but I cannot help it. The very first thing I thought of was:

    I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut. I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

    Lana Del Rey... she's so hot right now.

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      Brooke the ReplicantRebecca "Burt" Rose
      6/04/14 9:07pm

      Just...Jesus Christ, this doesn't even. I mean. What the hell does one have to do with the other?

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        Emma GolddiggerBrooke the Replicant
        6/04/14 9:21pm

        I know! It would be like if someone asked me, "Do you like Thai food?" and I was all, "Well, I'm really more interested in Milton's early poetry right now, but to each his own."

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      jagerzzz3Rebecca "Burt" Rose
      6/04/14 9:25pm

      Politics 101: When your target demographic thinks you have nothing to offer them, your message isn't working. Feminists need to realize that these indifferent young women are not the problem. And neither is the media. And neither is the patriarchy. You're the problem. If feminism is no longer a word or a concept that empowers young women (and many older women) that's a failure of feminist politics and a problem for feminists to figure out. And in case anybody's interested—bitching and sighing and eye rolling doesn't win anybody over to a cause.

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        HermioneStrangerjagerzzz3
        6/04/14 9:47pm

        But haven't you heard? The forth wave is all about trying the same old shtick and hoping we get radically different results this time.

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