The Antisocial Socialist

"Does it then follow that you no longer think it's wrong for a random man to smack an ice-cream cone out of my hand and lecture me on my weight until I pretty much ran away from him?"

Of course not. I'm sorry if it sounded like I was no longer opposed to fatphobia. I'm simply no longer willing to follow a tumblr blog of someone who says daft things. I will always support fat-acceptance. :)

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The phrase "I'd rather be a rebel than a slave" has its origins in the UK in the early 20th Century. It simply doesn't have US 'rebels' in mind. It was also stated at a time when slavery had been illegal in Britain for 100 years. To connect the term "rebels" specifically with the civil war and "slave" specifically with African Americans is to ignore the context of the phrase. In that phrase the rebels are suffragettes, women seeking equality and opposing gender roles, while the slaves are women, who were still treated as if they were the property of their husbands.

I actually heard recently that after slavery was ended in the US, free black men were allowed to vote long before free black women were. I wonder whether it might not be argued that the positioning of women women as subservient to men is a more insidious and wide-reaching kind of slavery, and certainly more long lasting, even if the levels of poor treatment involved were not often so harsh.

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Is rape only wrong when the victims are considered White or of European descent?

Of course not. As I understood it, the concern about Cologne was the decision not to inform the public. Naturally I would say assault on women was always a cause for upset regardless of race. And similarly the need to report on major dangers to the public is important regardless of race.

many people, such as you here, argue that their concepts are false and the bigotry they claim to fight against simply doesn't exist.

Such as me? I haven't argued that sexism and racism is false. Simply that the terms are sometimes applied too hurriedly, sometimes without examining the facts, by people who, as you say, are using them as an excuse for bullying or (and I like to be charitable and presume these latter two are far more common) because they have half-baked ideas or have been misled.

I consider myself a firm defender of feminist ideals and I'm a strong supporter of equality. I hope nothing I've said here suggests otherwise.