Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism - Alison Phipps

Alison Phipps will come to talk about her coming book entitled Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism. It argues that there is a major problem with #MeToo and other mainstream feminist campaigns against sexual violence. They are dominated by privileged white women: our personal pain tends to be the focus, while the victimisation of more marginalised women is sidelined or ignored. These campaigns also tend to rely on the criminal punishment system to redress personal injury: this system is institutionally classist and racist and can only become more so in a right-moving world. The title of the book – ‘Me, Not You’ – is a play on #MeToo, referring to the narcissism of mainstream feminist campaigns and the fact that white feminists tend to demand state protection at the expense of more marginalised people.