If you’re a student feminist under fire, what’s the best way to deal with your critics?
When students in the feminist society at Royal Holloway University overheard someone refer to them as the “ugly girls club” at a student union event, they reclaimed the phrase as their own.
They changed their name to the “ugly girls club” on Facebook, writing “we are more than our appearance and so are you”. Then they took to Twitter to show just how ugly they could be.
What started as a joke quickly turned into a campaign, with students from other universities joining in and posting their own unsightly selfies. Natasha Barrett, who is in the society, has said the message behind it is “incredibly positive”.
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Natasha Barrett, who is in the society, has told Buzzfeed: “Initially we found it quite funny and were sending tongue-in-cheek selfies with the hashtag among ourselves, but then a few current and graduate members of the society joined in.
“We thought despite the irony of the selfies the message was incredibly positive and relevant so portrayed it as a small campaign, with no idea it would grow to the extent it has.”
