| Mar. 7th, 2008 09:27 pm Oh noes! Politicals! So words can not even begin to describe how happy I am to hear from people about the different stuff I've posted this week. It's definitely more interesting than what's been going on in my life. I particularly loved that, after spending the afternoon thinking that I should go back and clarify a lot of the stuff I posted earlier, particularly that I didn't put up the "women abandoning women" article because I think all women should vote for Hillary (definitely not) but because I was really surprised to see the concept named and addressed in that way, I am greeted by a lively and outspoken post that said many of the same things. Whoo intellectually stimulating friends... dare I say it?... for the win (oh no, I'm a product on the internet!).
Getting back to the issues raised in my textbook, I think a lot of criticism and backlash came from the rest of the society insisting of viewing any sort of extremism and anomaly as being the unanimous position of the whole. This, in turn, is what spawned paranoia over what all the leaders and groups said or did or supported, for fear of how it would reflect on the whole instead of being taken as, oh, one opinion expressed by one person who's liked and respected for their other opinions. A few splinter groups and one display of symbolic purification and the rejection of constraints mostly consisting of girdles, high heels, sexist texts, housewives manuals, etc, has turned into the massive, pervasive stereotype that feminists are all bra burning lesbians. One display! Nothing was ever on fire! Somehow one "bad" friend makes the whole group look bad, tolerating daring and radical new positions implies agreement and support, etc, etc, etc.
Ah, controversy. And yes, I censored the cuss words, although I would argue that his verb usage is the most appropriate use of the f-bomb possible (it's not an adjective, people!). Since I don't cuss, it seems weird to just cut and paste someone else's swear words into my text, even if it is a quotation. And also because I hope that one day my mom will start peeking at this when she wants to find out what I've been up to because I generally end up re-capping all my recent posts for her anyway and if she'd already read them then we could just start talking about and discussing what I've been up to and what I've been thinking instead.Current Location: dorm
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