#I mean muh nuance but women like Palmer are obviously just as evil as the men they enable and marry

[stormyromance]

While we’re on the subject of Amanda Palmer, does anyone remember the phrase “handmaiden of patriarchy”? That’s what Amanda Palmer is. A woman who essentially trafficked other women to her rapist husband, birthed a son to be groomed by said rapist and has done other shit to degrade women throughout her entire career.

I am not one of those women who believes all women under patriarchy are pure victims. Sure, we all suffer from it in one way or another. Palmer is a rape victim herself, but we all have a choice to uplift other women and stand up for ourselves or contribute to the problem and Palmer chose to contribute. You can’t tell me she was poor or powerless and had to do what Gaiman said either. She was a successful artist in her own right with her own money and everything. She was Gaiman’s accomplice not his victim. Feminists are going to have to face the reality of misogynistic women at some point without screaming “the patriarchy made her do it!”

We’re all under the same patriarchy, but not all of us choose to do what Palmer did. It’s not like Palmer was ignorant either, she was a self identified feminist. A liberal feminist mind you, but last time I checked liberal feminists also think rape is wrong.