Women who show a willingness to accept nasty or sexist comments about other women, and sometimes even actively support them via social media likes, or laughing at sexist jokes in the pub drive me absolutely up the wall and I have no time for them whatsoever.
Just because they never confront the behaviour they think it isn't relevant to them, that it somehow doesn't apply. But it does. It does! Every time they toss their hair and laugh when a man says his girlfriend is nagging, or 'like' a post on Facebook where a man is condescendingly telling a woman she's said enough what they are doing is tacitly accepting that women should accept and willingly embrace the control and domination of men, and that men have the final say in how much a woman can communicate.
These are the same women who say they hate Feminism because it gives women a bad name. It's sad that they exist but what's even sadder is that they exist in the derby community - a sport so fundamentally female that even the recent influx of boy derby has brought a delightful fashion for men in sparkly shorts.
There is no place for female on female hatred in derby. There's no place for anyone on anyone hatred, it's fucking derby for fuck's sake, where's the derby love? But if you are female and feel the best way to self-identify is by how much the boys think you are one of them - all to the detriment of the women around you I genuinely have no idea why you have chosen to be part of such an inclusive and welcoming sport.
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