A form letter response inspired by the anti-spam form letter.
Your communication requests a free feminist review of your (check all that apply):
- creative
- educational
- research
- social
- community
- technical
personal or commercial project. Your request for a review is refused. Here are the reasons why it is refused.
On trivial inspection, your project suffers from the following flaws (select all that apply):
- this is obviously your homework assignment
- you have clearly skipped your institution's ethics review process
- you have no idea how to bring this project to market
- you used the word "crowdsourcing"
- your entire project is predicated on having women work on your project for free and then selling their work for lots and lots of money
- your project is large-scale-only: effort spent on your project will be wasted if not every Internet user/child/woman/living person in the whole world signs up to it
- your project is closely related to one or more existing successful woman-led feminist projects, of which you seem unaware
- in addition, I personally run one of these projects of which you seem unaware
- just your project prospectus is sexist or even misogynist
- you seem to be doing this largely to expand your social circle because you have no female friends
- and the way you went on to repeatedly tell me about your lack of female friends was not as enticing as you thought
- you seem to be doing this largely to expand your dating circle
- your project is very uncompelling
- your project is absolute crap
In addition, your request suffers in these respects (select all that apply):
- you regard me as pretty much interchangable with any other woman and have contacted me on the sole grounds that I can represent the woman point of view
- I am very clearly the only woman you know of
- you have seemingly spammed every woman on the planet with this request
- you have an enormous sense of entitlement to my time and attention on no other grounds than that I am a woman
- you're developing a commercial project and asking for many hours of free consulting
- you are asking for help at the last possible moment, after months or years of apparently no consideration of women
- you appear to be making this request in order to figleaf an otherwise sexist or even misogynist project
- you make passive-aggressive implications that refusal to help you will prove that feminists are reverse-sexist
- you describe women as "females"
- you describe adult women as "girls"
- you imply that adult women are a complete write-off as far as social change goes and that focussing on girls is not only one option, but the only option for change
- you are asking privileged women to speak on behalf of other women
Also, on a quick glance, your project description fails to account for:
- the ill-advisability of attempting to create the One True Women's Resource as your very first substantial project
- the ill-advisability of having an all-male team tell women and girls what they want
- women possessing agency even in the presence of enticing advertisements for lipstick
- the existence of people who are both women and members of another oppressed class
- the existence of people who have a non-binary gender id
- asshats
- the patriarchy
- the kyriarchy
The following philosophical objections may also apply:
- speaking on behalf of all women everywhere is impossible
- not all women are interested in babies, crafts, makeup, shoes, weddings or celebrity gossip
- women who are interested in any or all of babies, crafts, makeup, shoes, weddings or celebrity gossip are not unspeakably contemptible
- not all women are mothers or intending mothers
- mothers and intending mothers are not unspeakably contemptible
- not all women are heterosexual
- not all women have vaginas, uteruses and/or menstrual cycles
Hope this helps! Have a nice day!