Am I reading it wrong, or are the digital feminist gathering spots rife with essentialism?
Growing up, reading with Sisterhood sisters who didn't flinch from class, economics and broad critique may have prejudiced me in favor of firebrand feminists who weren't content to have gender proportional representation in militarized academia, corporate america, the military and the state.
Their entire modus operandi was anti-colonial, anti-imperial and anti-patriarchy.
Now, it seems, "prominent" feminists have bought into the Shakescult style of wagon circling and ideological testing...
That's just heart breaking. I understand better now what you were talking about a while back when you linked in the savaging of transgendered persons.
Most of the Sisters I knew growing up were openly marxist, anarchist or socialist - and this was when being any combination of not Christian, straight and White was opening oneself up to real violence and no chance of help.
Ethan's working through his music collection in alphabetical order
The next five artists he'll be listening to:
The Clash The Clientele Jimmy Cliff Patsy Cline Clinic
(Project began May 29, 2010. Finished through the letter B on April 1, 2011 with 460 items catalogued on Rate Your Music.)
Ethan's reading
Samuel R. Delany Triton aka Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
Thoughts that aren't getting whole posts
- I just caught my cat licking one of my dirty shirts. When he saw I was watching, he pretended he'd been cleaning himself all along. -ethan 9/23/11
- I didn't know The Pixies covered "I've Been Waiting for You"! So on Heathen, David Bowie covered The Pixies AND a song they covered? Weird. -ethan 9/21/11
- Dangerous Visions is so goddamn macho. And like half the writers are military or "intelligence" or government or advertising dudes. It largely bites. -ethan 9/10/11
- I wish people would figure out that "HD" is not even close to "like you're actually there"--it's completely different from how we really see things. If they figured that out, maybe it would occasionally be used interestingly. -ethan 9/9/11
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars has its major problems, but it looks like a series of living Nicholas Roerich paintings. -ethan 9/3/11
- I just plain don't like Brian Aldiss. -ethan 8/31/11
- Here, at least, it was a good hurricane. I'm embarrassed by how happy I was when the electricity came back on. -ethan 8/28/11
- Is it my imagination or is IOZ way more open about genuinely caring about things since his return? -ethan 8/26/11
- Does Firefox constantly tell British people that they're spelling labour and programme and theatre wrong? -ethan 8/25/11
- There is a huge (and hugely important) difference between knowing that events a, b, and c happened between years x and y, and understanding that they were happening at the same time. -ethan 8/24/11
- Among the many things bugging me about the crappy novel I'm reading is that it keeps referring to a woman whose "late teens" were "forty years ago" as a "little old lady." Come on now, she's 59 at the oldest. -ethan 8/22/11
- Spending a day in the woods is the best thing in the world. -ethan 8/21/11
- Maria Mies: "Powerless groups, particularly if they are totally integrated within a system of power and exploitation, find it difficult to define reality differently from the powerful." -ethan 8/20/11
- The funniest sentence in Frankenstein: "I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition." -ethan 8/18/11
- Chumbawamba: "Nothing ever burned down by itself/Every fire needs a little bit of help." -ethan 8/18/11
- We'll see if I use this. Idea stolen from Davidly. -ethan 8/18/11
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Am I reading it wrong, or are the digital feminist gathering spots rife with essentialism?
Growing up, reading with Sisterhood sisters who didn't flinch from class, economics and broad critique may have prejudiced me in favor of firebrand feminists who weren't content to have gender proportional representation in militarized academia, corporate america, the military and the state.
Their entire modus operandi was anti-colonial, anti-imperial and anti-patriarchy.
Now, it seems, "prominent" feminists have bought into the Shakescult style of wagon circling and ideological testing...
Jack, all I can say is you ain't reading it wrong.
That's just heart breaking. I understand better now what you were talking about a while back when you linked in the savaging of transgendered persons.
Most of the Sisters I knew growing up were openly marxist, anarchist or socialist - and this was when being any combination of not Christian, straight and White was opening oneself up to real violence and no chance of help.
What happened?
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