Tessa Schlesinger
2 min readSep 18, 2022

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I am not a feminist, and I never will be feminist. What is not taken into account here is that most people are followers, that they don't have the intellect, guts, and imagination to achieve what they want to achieve. It has nothing to do with being a woman. Men have the same issues.

My late mother (horrible person) ran away from home when she was 14 (1939), lied about her age and joined the army. When she left in 1945, she went to do two more years of schooling.

In her time, she raced cars (50s and early 60s), became an anti-apartheid activist in South AFrica, was a founder member of the Black Sash, was the director of a very successful business, was a numismatist, philatilist, and more.

Here's the thing. There were three full time servants at home. I was never taught a single thing - not how to eat, not how to say hell or goodbye or to say thank you. I wasn't taught how to bath or brush my teeth or wash my hair.

My late father did not beat up my mother. He was a perfect gentleman. I never heard him cuss, and he never drunk. He was intellectually brilliant with three degrees in different fields and spoke 11 languages.

I understand that my late mother was exceptional. But that's just it. Exceptional people do rise. It has nothing to do with gender. The fights that were fought at the beginning of the 20th century, voting rights, etc. were won.

Feminists blame men for everything. My followers are mostly men, and I'm a very old woman. It has nothing to do with sexual attraction or something like that. It is simply the quality of my intellect and my ability to write well.

Oh, and a lot of women can't stand me.

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