By Stephanie-Who-Rocks. Then come on back and tell me what you think. Here's the comment I left for Stephanie:
Weighing in a little late Stephanie, but just had to say Amen! To all of that. I've done my time with the worst of the female art-cliques: being told I "betrayed the feminist movement" and took advantage of "the women whose sacrifices made it possible" for me to curate and create, just because I installed a woman's work in a location she did not like as part of a group show! And I've held my own, with limited involvement in "guilds," because I dread the middle-of-the-road quilt-cops and their assertion that I can't be an artist until my child is grown up and my husband lets me build a studio in our house. Sorry, not everyone acts that way, but the ladies who do are a bummer. YOU are SO AWESOME to just come out and say so! And I'm linking your post. Rock on! JS