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This sounds like a conclusion looking for evidence. What's with the interest in blaming this on feminism?
by tunesmith 12y ago
This sounds like a conclusion looking for evidence. What's with the interest in blaming this on feminism?
- EdwardDiego 12y agoI think that the parent comment is merely interested if this exists in societies like Sweden where feminism as a philosophy is more entrenched. As for why he's asking the question - because activist intersectional feminism appears to be leading the trend towards these safe spaces, I guess? It was the focus of the article ("rape culture" as a concept is, as far as I can tell, a feminist one), although it segued into the racism/Islamophobia at the end.
- tunesmith 12y agoYou're right, I flipped some words in reading the first sentence and thought it was getting at something else. Thanks for clarifying.
- onnoonno 12y agoA very good reason to generally attack/dismiss feminism IMO is that it is this morphing amoeba-like ideology. One's personal feminism is always different from 'those mainstream feminists', yet you do not see a lot of distancing from some of the very harmful feminist extremists that are around. ("NAFALT" - not all feminists are like that) It's gotten to the point where the analogue would be to label oneself a 'stalinist libertarian' (because not all stalinists are like that) or other similar nonsense.
- tunesmith 12y agoI disagree just because an overloaded term is not necessarily a meaningless or low-value term - many of its definitions might be important. I do agree that overloaded terms are frustrating, though. It also doesn't help that some of the overloading of "feminism" is from its detractors.
- onnoonno 12y agoA video that might be worth to watch, criticism of feminism from an eloquent woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8tToFv-bA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8tToFv-bA