thought for the moment

From Rebecca West, who said this in 1913:

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

And it's still true almost a century later.

Spotted at zombieswan, who seemed to take a bit of heartening from the fact that the bias meter at FlickFilosopher.com resulted from an embracing of a negative criticism, instead of letting said criticism bring me down. But that's the only way you can take some negative criticism: as an indication that you've hit a raw nerve. And that's a good thing to do, sometimes.