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When you say "right-thinking minds", do you mean right-wing? As in conservative? Because to my knowledge and from my experience feminism has traditionally been
by kenbellows 13y ago
When you say "right-thinking minds", do you mean right-wing? As in conservative? Because to my knowledge and from my experience feminism has traditionally been and continues to be a very left-leaning philosophy and is actually rather heavily scorned and derided by many conservatives I know.
Also, which "mainstream institutions" do you mean? News media? Educational institutions? These are also generally thought to be rather left-thinking, in my experience.
- newnewnew 13y agoBy "right-thinking minds", I mean "correct-thinking minds". It is a fireable offense to say non-feminist or anti-feminist things, even in a dry academic way (look at Larry Summers) - it is politically incorrect. Non-feminist and anti-feminist thought is no longer an acceptable part of the mainstream conversation. The range of permissible mainstream thought is determined by the left. Essentially, the mainstream follows Harvard with a ~30 year lag. The infrastructure which propagates what Harvard believes to everybody else and determines the constraints of acceptable thought is what Moldbug calls "the Modern Structure"[1] or "the Cathedral"[2]. [1] http://anomalyuk.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-modern-structure.html http://anomalyuk.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-modern-structure.h... [2] http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/01/gentle-introduction-to-unqualified.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/01/gentle-...
- theorique 13y agoWith Summers, he violated protocol by even asking the question.
- kanja 13y agoSome questions are simply un-askable in a postmodern intellectual framework. Here's a great primer if you're unfamiliar with it: http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~kwesthue/regiftedxmas12.html http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~kwesthue/regiftedxmas12.html