Shanley Kane seems to embody the main issue that I have with what the feminist movement has become.

My sister, a very vocal feminist, got her degree in sociology and enrolled in Teach For America for a two year stint. She's just shipped herself off to Vietnam to teach English a couple weeks ago, but I had a little conversation with her about things before she left. I brought up feminism, and she said, "Do you believe that men and women should be treated equally?". I responded, "Of course," to which she replied, "Well then you're a feminist!". I asserted that the movement has been somewhat (not entirely) hijacked by radicals, but she pointed out that such is true of most social movements.

And... that's kind of how I see Shanley Kane, who, I admit, I'd never heard of prior to reading this article.

She described herself as someone who doesn’t like a lot of people, though she has a small circle of close friends and supporters she sees periodically.

For someone so familiar with PR, you'd think she'd realize that leaders of social movements would best be more humanist. And I don't really care who you are, if 50%+ of your tweets are complaints about anything and everything in your life, I'm not going to tune into that. I understand that she passionately crusades for a cause that is worth supporting, but the method in which she does it is just too off-putting.

That was a really great article though, I found myself nodding in agreement as I reached the end.

If anyone wants to tear me a new one, I'm totally down.

P.S. I am a white male in my mid-twenties, and I will be the first to admit that being me is stupidly easy. And no, it's not fair.