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Feminist Founder of “Rock the Slut Vote” Complains “Extreme Right” Uses “Derogatory Terms” To “Go After Her Image”…
Just a tad hypocritical.
Via Politico:
Nobody said political activism was easy. Just ask Susan Emry, a 56-year-old mother of two living in San Luis Obispo, Calif., who decided earlier this year to help elect progressive candidates this November.
But what’s brought her trouble isn’t her politics. It’s her branding.
The name for her initiative: “Rock the Slut Vote.”
The attention has come in, but it’s not always positive. Emry says she’s received “heavy negative reaction coming from the right, the far, far extreme right.”
“They use the most derogatory terms and, occasionally, threats even. Personal attacks. They go after your image, for instance. … Maybe I wasn’t as prepared to deal with that initially when I put up the website.”
Even some who might sympathize with Emry’s politics have raised questions about the name.
“Some women take the word ‘slut’ personally and can’t understand why anybody would embrace the word,” Emry said. “It’s not a word my generation, especially, tosses around lightly. … The important thing to do is to take the power away from the word, and the way I can do that is by using humor and satire. … It’s a word that the right tends to swing at people because it is so effective at silencing women.”
Emry is quick to make clear that she doesn’t use the word to describe, well, herself.
“That is not a word that I attach to myself. It doesn’t even begin to fit my lifestyle and my personal history. I’m a very likely feminist. I’m not a likely slut.”
As for how she will vote this fall, Emry’s locked in on Obama.
Feminist Founder of “Rock the Slut Vote” Complains “Extreme Right” Uses “Derogatory Terms” To “Go After Her Image”…
Just a tad hypocritical.
Via Politico:
Nobody said political activism was easy. Just ask Susan Emry, a 56-year-old mother of two living in San Luis Obispo, Calif., who decided earlier this year to help elect progressive candidates this November.
But what’s brought her trouble isn’t her politics. It’s her branding.
The name for her initiative: “Rock the Slut Vote.”
The attention has come in, but it’s not always positive. Emry says she’s received “heavy negative reaction coming from the right, the far, far extreme right.”
“They use the most derogatory terms and, occasionally, threats even. Personal attacks. They go after your image, for instance. … Maybe I wasn’t as prepared to deal with that initially when I put up the website.”
Even some who might sympathize with Emry’s politics have raised questions about the name.
“Some women take the word ‘slut’ personally and can’t understand why anybody would embrace the word,” Emry said. “It’s not a word my generation, especially, tosses around lightly. … The important thing to do is to take the power away from the word, and the way I can do that is by using humor and satire. … It’s a word that the right tends to swing at people because it is so effective at silencing women.”
Emry is quick to make clear that she doesn’t use the word to describe, well, herself.
“That is not a word that I attach to myself. It doesn’t even begin to fit my lifestyle and my personal history. I’m a very likely feminist. I’m not a likely slut.”
As for how she will vote this fall, Emry’s locked in on Obama.
