Because everybody knows that the only thing more offensive to a guy than being called a girl is being called a hysterical girl.
It’s hilarious how some people can’t manage to hold two of their liberal beliefs in their heads at the same time.
And Now a Spot of Liberal Sexism
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Don’t you think it’s rather ironic that “digby,” the daily author of that far-left “Hullabaloo” website, is a hard-core radical feminist woman. Her full name as openly published on “Salon.com” (so I’m not “outing” anyone) is Heather Digby Parton.
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This is not a rad fem for sure. I’ve been reading this blog for a while, and I’d know a radical feminist.
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\ This is not a rad fem for sure. I’ve been reading this blog for a while, and I’d know a radical feminist.
How do you define being a radical vs non-radical feminist?
I have read on web several blogs of proclaimed radical feminists and they haven’t left me with a good impression.
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Radical feminists are
1) completely opposed to the superficiality of choice feminism;
2) opposed to legalizing prostitution which they see as exploitation;
3) opposed to any form of gender essentialism (= the belief that there is some sort of an essence to one’s gender that just happens for no reason). This often leads them to conflicts with transgender activists who have an unfortunate habit of making pronouncements about female brains, etc.;
4) are dedicated to analyzing how linguistic usage reinforces gender stereotypes (like what I did in this post;
5) work creating shelters for battered women, provide actual help to victims of abuse, etc. This is the only feminist movement that actually does something for women.
This is a good rad fem community (in Russian): http://femunity.livejournal.com/
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And one more thing: radical feminists are very much opposed to the concept of “intersectionality” that is being used to render the entire feminist movement toothless.
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So, do you define yourself as a radical feminist too?
Were Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedman ones? All famous feminists who wrote valuable works on women?
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The rad fem movement arose in 1970s. Obviously, this after Beauvoir’s or Friedan’s time. The founders of the rad fem movement (Solanas, Dworkin, etc.) were very traumatized people who said and did a lot of garbagey things. For instance, they allied themselves with right-wing religious fanatics, strengthening the grip these freaks have on politics.
Unfortunately, the entire rad fem movement has been tainted for decades by the memory of these individuals and their mistakes. Of course, it’s such an easy way to discredit feminism. It’s just like the pill-pushers who whip out Freud’s unfortunate and obviously dumb-ass penis envy whenever they need to discredit any form of psychological help that does not rely on pill-popping.
Today, however, it’s a movement that does A LOT of good, especially in the former USSR space. And I believe it’s unfair to dismiss these activists because of what Dworkin said long before they were even born.
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