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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1373 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
By no means, and I completely disagree with anyone who says women are safer drivers. studies indicate that, statistically, adolescent female drivers have less crashes that adolescent male drivers. so they get charged less car insurance. my point is that when we apply the same logic, just in the other direction, it becomes sexist. women, statistically make less money and live longer than men. so they get less life insurance. and that's sexist. now, the problem is the making less money. let's attack that, and the statistical insurance calculation will work themselves out. (and if they don't, we got after that next)
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1373 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
See, I don't get why you are saying that, since the kind of feminism you describe isn't anything like what I have ever identified as women's rights/political social activist movement feminism. So, what is your evidence that the political feminist activist women's rights movement is being overshadowed or surplanted by the academic literary criticism feminism? I mean, who are these people who are taking over? personal experience in the academic world. i really can't explain it any better. if you'd like to understand what i'm trying to say, i highly suggest you take a class in women's studies and see for yourself. as for who it is, i'm not actually sure. as a group, it's the post-modern philosophical academic kind. they all dig it.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1496 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
personal experience in the academic world. i really can't explain it any better. How does that apply to the non-academic world?
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1373 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
How does that apply to the non-academic world? how does anything in the academic world apply to the non-academic world. sure, we study things like biology and geology, but what does that have to do with reality? hell, what does political science have to do with politics? i suggest two things:1. that the non-academic world is lead by the academic world 2. there are more academic feminists now than non-academic feminists. the second may well be wrong, but i don't think it is.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1496 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
how does anything in the academic world apply to the non-academic world. Well, that's the very issue at hand - how does feminist criticism as an academic circle have anything to do with feminism as an activist movement?
sure, we study things like biology and geology, but what does that have to do with reality? Ah, but those are two fields whose specific focus is the study of the real world. The focus of academic feminist criticism is not the study of feminist activism, but the criticism of culture.
that the non-academic world is lead by the academic world Well, the non-academic feminists don't consider themselves "led" by the academic feminists, as we have plainly seen thanks to Schraf. So I submit that your first suggestion is way, way off base.
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macaroniandcheese  Suspended Member (Idle past 3957 days) Posts: 4258 Joined: |
i think we need to make a distinction between career feminist activists and people who think they are feminists. i sorta consider myself a feminist in the populist sense that i like the whole equality ideals. but i am not a career activist nor am i overt about my ideas ouside of constructive things like, say, voting.
but then i'm also the most mysoginistic person most of my friends know. cause um. i hate women.
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macaroniandcheese  Suspended Member (Idle past 3957 days) Posts: 4258 Joined: |
yeah that whole math being masculine thing.
as though math is easier for boys. pft. just more boys are raised to be interested in math. sorry. i have an A in discrete... a class most people fail at least once. i'm not even a math major (yet). i have one of the highest grades in the class. i do not have a penis; therefore, math must not be masculine. P => Q~Q thus ~P as i said in another thread. math is a discovered science about the truths of the world. men just happened to be doing the discovering. btw. arithmatic was comepletely discovered by the saraceans. does anyone tell you that? don't tell bush or he'll abolish teaching math because the 'evil muslims' invented it to ruin our freedom. however. if you want a source on that existing in feminism gimme a sec.
quote: (found here http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/sci.html just to give a good variety of sources) now. some of these will follow your thinking but some will indeed state that women cannot possibly stand for science as is. particularly, look up carolyn merchant and her book death of nature. she will describe how, by reorganizing the world into a hierarchical system, they allowed for the industrial revolution which of course has destroyed the world. or something. oh yes and joni seager's earth follies these are branches of ecofeminism which is a radical branch of feminism and thus not often discussed. but that does not mean it does not exist. remember. feminism is a broad subject and they won't tell you everything in your 101 class. congratulations, you don't know everything. This message has been edited by brennakimi, 03-25-2005 10:22 AM
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CK Member (Idle past 4157 days) Posts: 3221 Joined: |
I did a woman's studies class when I was at uni - the male/female ratio was great.
On another note - A friend of my went for a job in a wimmin's studies department and when he walked in, one of the interviewers stood up and Said "but but your a MAN!".
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macaroniandcheese  Suspended Member (Idle past 3957 days) Posts: 4258 Joined: |
exactly.
there are a great many feminists who think that men cannot possibly be a part because they cannot possibly understand. they are the opressor, the mechanist, they cannot understand woman's organic relationship with nature and blah blah blah.
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macaroniandcheese  Suspended Member (Idle past 3957 days) Posts: 4258 Joined: |
she may think it's stupid. well, they think the same of her popularism. as though she's trying to play the middle and still please men instead of overthrowing them as she ought.
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contracycle Inactive Member |
Umm, so whats new here? Women play a central role in their own oppression - this is standard stuff and inherent to an analysis of social conditioning. Thats exactly why it takes action and determination to bring about change, not merely piously hoping for better.
This message has been edited by contracycle, 03-28-2005 07:32 AM
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1496 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Yes, and as I and others have been saying all along, and she explained in the interview, academic feminism is mainly useless in the real world. Weren't you claiming that academic feminism was "taking over" and was "widespread" throughout the culture, or something similar?
quote: They do? Can you show me some evidence of that?
quote: What the fuck are you talking about? Gloria Steinem was a major, major leader in the feminist movement in the 70's and for decades after. She has always pushed for women to recognize and address the patriarchy in their lives. And why "ought she" overthrow men? She likes men. She just doesn't like patriarchy, but she sees men as victims of it just as women are. Social conditioning puts us in these strict gender roles that are completely arbitrary. Haven't you been saying something similar? Anyway, the point of my quoting her was to show you that there is a large difference between the populist movement feminism and literary criticisam academic feminism, and that the former doesn't give a crap about the latter. Also, the latter doesn't have much bearing on most people's life, but the former does. This message has been edited by schrafinator, 03-29-2005 08:37 AM
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Would these be academic feminists, intheir ivory towers on campus, far removed from politics and the real world, populist feminism? Or, would they be the feminists who welcome the numerous male volunteers at the battered women's shelter I volunteer at?
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1373 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
i'm gonna guess academic.
but they've redefined gender. "man" doesn't mean "has a penis." it means "doesn't agree with us." people with penises that agree with them are "women."
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