Enough middle-class feminism, would be interesting to have a few comments about this piece.

InfinitelyThirsting · 2010-03-24T15:12:11+00:00

The contemporary feminist focus on male violence against women is bad for feminism because it positions women primarily as victims, while giving power to male police and politicians to "protect" us from "bad men". It returns us to the tired old model of two opposing genders: man=masculine=aggressive v woman=feminine=passive. It offers no analysis of, and therefore no effective political opposition to, the ways violence against women relates to other forms of violence that women (and men) experience. But most of all, it's bad for feminism because it defines women's experiences of sex and sexuality exclusively in terms of fear and danger, and reserves for men the privileged terrains of desire and pleasure.

Hands down the best part of the article.

I was hoping it would explore more the fact that there are FAR more important things to worry about in other parts of the world, when it comes to women, rather than in our relatively equal Western societies, but at least it addressed the idiocy of "feminism" turning women into nothing but helpless victims. And even defended men as not all bad, to boot. Not bad, considering most articles focused on women/feminism ignore men at best.

modix · 2010-03-24T19:24:37+00:00

Why should a sex worker be a symbol of sexism any more than a competent professional woman denied promotion in favour of a younger male colleague? Or a teenage girl who doesn't get the education she deserves because her family are too poor to play the postcode lottery or pay tuition fees?

Those were odd examples to pick. The first laments that a younger (but presumably equally qualified) worker will receive preferential treatment, the second implies that there are options open to poor families who wish to educate their boys which would be denied for girls.

Both represent problems, but neither appear like sexism is the most prominent cause.

PierceHarlan · 2010-03-24T18:35:29+00:00

You want to know why feminism needs to be anti-male? It's the only thing that separates feminism from garden variety moonbat progressivism.

Title	Enough middle-class feminism, would be interesting to have a few comments about this piece.
Author	reyofish
Upvotes	14
Comments	5
Date	March 24, 2010 2:34 PM UTC (16 years ago)
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