This morning I asked Syd (the only female member of Odd Future) if I could interview her for a feminist website, and she very politely declined, and then said on her Twitter that she wasn’t a feminist and didn’t much believe in it. Now, on her Tumblr, people are sending her messages both “supporting feminism” and also saying that feminism doesn’t equate to being “pro-woman.” That feminism does not speak for women because they don’t need a movement to tell them they’re worth it (to cop a L’Oreal line).

I don’t know how it’s happened exactly, but what I perceive to be a relatively powerless movement (at least in the face of much larger political and economic forces) has come to be itself an oppressive and monolithic power structure, at least on the internet. It seems to have become something that young women—especially ones who work primarily with men—that young women eschew because it is of the same composition as the Tea Party of the Yankees qua movement. A victim of its own success almost more than a victim of its failures.

As a coda, I put a screencap of Domo Genesis, another Odd Future member.