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It's remarkable that these censors are hiding behind "feminism", as a framing to make their censoriousness seem more palatable, or progressive, or enlightened. Anyone familiar with literature (reading–not burning) might know the OG feminists defied laws and criminal arrests to publish obscene books.

Here's Margaret C. Anderson of "The Little Review", fined $100 and fingerprinted for flouting morality laws publishing Joyce's Ulysses in serialized form,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_C._Anderson

(Did you know the US Post Office used to burn books?)



I'm not sure of the scale of Collective Shout. It may be little more than one person with an agenda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist

I suspect there is far more church backing behind this organisation than feminist.


There have been multiple waves and competing schools of feminism. OG feminism isn't relevant to what it means today.


That this wave of modern feminists would arrest the 1920's feminists for moral crimes shows they are indeed very different.


> Anyone familiar with literature (reading–not burning)

nice one




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