Speak It, Sister!

[redheadedfemme]

Debs over at The Burning Times has a great post on how "sex-positive" feminism isn't feminism at all.

Comments

[redheadedfemme]

I think this splintering in third-wave feminism (what you call "believing in x, y and z") is the main reason why women are slowly losing their hard-fought gains. This happened as far back as the 1980's and started happening again after 9/11 (read Susan Faludi's "Backlash" and "The Terror Dream" for excellent arguments along this line). To fall back on a cliche, if we don't hang together we will surely hang separately.

[amqu.livejournal.com]

I might go down to the library and check out Backlash. If I do, I'll post an LJ entry with my thoughts about it.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

I don't believe that at all. And I don't care. You can't make feminism into a big tent that includes every idiot woman out there who wants to browbeat people into accepting her stupid, harmful decisions. She wants to limit the harm to herself, that's her business. She wants to help men exploit other women? Forget about it. She's my enemy then and I don't give a shit what her gender is.

You're actually blaming feminism for the way womens' rights have been constnatly under attack by outside forces for decades? Way to blame the victim. If you got that out of "Backlash" I don't know what in hell you were reading. Faludi has gone on record---and the book is quite plain---that the book is about the way feminism has been the object of attacks since its inception. "The Terror Dream" is about how conservatives saw a new opportunity for attacking women. Yet you blame it on feminists and women. I'm just amazed.