Well, apparently you aren't allowed to be an attractive woman and also a feminist according to the conservatives who commented.
I think that's a valid point. If part of your "feminist" agenda is for a woman to be considered on the basis of what she does and who she is rather than how she looks, then it seems to follow you should be very careful about how you present yourself and should probably avoid appearing attractive. Otherwise it would seem you're just begging for trouble--you know the social norms, you're fighting against them after all.
My husband showed me the group picture and asked me to pick out what a conservative blogger would object to, and I honestly couldn't figure it out.
Sure. Different people look at the same photo different ways. The objection isn't that liberals will judge and pick her out based on her appearance. It's that conservatives and the people she's fighting against would. So .. it doesn't really matter that you couldn't pick her out. She's not trying to fight and change you and your viewpoint.
It's what I've thought for a long time; it's the conservatives who have sex on their minds at all times.
That's unfair. Conservatives have an ideal about sex, and the ideal is broken by others. If their ideal was met, I think they wouldn't think about sex nearly as much. I think a conservative would say, they think about sex all the time because they feel it is "thrown in their face."
With all that said, I'm not here to support the conservative position. I just think it's more peaceful... and useful... to try and take an opponent's viewpoint. Which I didn't feel you did in this post or the original.
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