It takes all kinds ...

[seraphcelene]

Hmmmm ...

So, I've been reading about feminism and all of its sundry categories and derivations. And ... wow ... Just ...

Radical feminism and feminist seperatism leave me totally floored. Although I recognize and deeply appreciate the necessity for radical extremes against which the center may be balanced, aiding, indeed inciting, the progression of social, political and economic change, I am stunned by the levels of pure-D hatred and intolerance.I always thought that I was a feminist, or at least had feminist leanings, but apparantly I am a brain washed, enslaved sheep complicit in the degradation and subservience that women are subject to.

I ought to be ashamed.

Too bad that I'm not.

Comments

[seraphcelene]

I think that once you've gone so far that there's no way to even discuss the matter--the way that extreme feminists decry the entirety of civilization--you've gone too far. What's the point if you refuse to relate to actual people?

OMG! That's totally it. To generalize, there seemed to be a a resistence to reconditioning the system and an insistence on destroying it. The inability or unwillingness to work with baffles me. Seperating oneself doesn't ever fix the problem, an unwillinginess or disinterest in considering alternative theories seems especially detrimental. How can you grow and learn and change and encourage others to do the same if you are so stuck in only one mode?

[my_daroga]

It's a singularly pessimistic view, too, to basically say we must reject all MEN as part of the problem (I know not everyone says precisely this, but it's so often implied). That doesn't seem like an approach I want to take to anything. I mean, how would that work in the Middle East?