"A racist woman is not a feminist; she doesn’t care about helping women, just the women who look like..."

“A racist woman is not a feminist; she doesn’t care about helping women, just the women who look like her and can buy the same things she can. A trans-phobic woman is not a feminist; she is overly concerned with policing the bodies and expressions of others. A woman against reproductive rights — to use bell hooks’ own example, and an issue close to your heart — is not a feminist; she prioritizes her dogma or her disgust over the bodies of others. An ableist woman is not a feminist; she holds some Platonic ideal of what a physically or mentally “whole” person should be and tries to force the world to fit inside it.”

- An Open Letter to Caitlin Moran. (via stephaniesilver)