Comments on: Has Feminism Lost Its Focus?

By: donna darko

donna darko — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:30:45 +0000

I have a fan!

Seriously, Hirschman is insensitive but she’s not really saying what people think. Yes, she’s insensitive but so was GET TO WORK her manifesto which I loved it just because she said it. Hi, Linda Hirschman.

By: And you thought you had ‘mother issues’ « blue milk

And you thought you had ‘mother issues’ « blue milk — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:53:01 +0000

[...] lost and catching up on all this? Read this one from Jessica Hoffmann and this one from Jill Filopovic and this one from Hirshman for three (white) views on the problem with ‘white [...]

By: Gayle

Gayle — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:31:35 +0000

PS:
Tin foil Hattie: “Disclosure: I have not liked Hirshman ever since she instructed me that it was my duty to feminism to stop taking care of my own kids and go get a job somewhere.”

That’s a gross misinterpretation of what Hirshman has said about women and work. Really, I love ya, but you need to examine this more.

By: Gayle

Gayle — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:13:03 +0000

Yes, agreeing with Linda here and not much else.

Except Donna. Go Donna!!

By: Whose Feminism? at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

Whose Feminism? at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:04:29 +0000

[...] lose my cookies, feminists – Hey! Feminists who happen to be white! – like Megan Carpentier and Jill at Feministe have written sharp, incredibly clever and fantastic critiques of non-racist feminism. In my [...]

By: Not my feminism « don’t ya wish your girlfriend was smart like me?

Not my feminism « don’t ya wish your girlfriend was smart like me? — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:01:05 +0000

[...] clearly it is not a lot of feminists’ feminism: read these great criticisms of [...]

By: outcrazyophelia

outcrazyophelia — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:09:21 +0000

I can see how feminists who felt at home at WAM would think that the conference would just be so much better without killjoys complaining about it. It’s easy, when you love something, to want to protect it at all costs. It’s easy, when your perspective is the only one you can know, to think that people who see it differently must just be wrong.

Thanks for your response Jill. I’m getting worn out with the whole Highlander “There can be only one” debate about Feminism and what should and shouldn’t be part of it.

By: Manju

Manju — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:32:11 +0000

Bq:

look at it this way. i can easily connect my feminism to my anti-communism (you can’t liberate women by enslaving them to the dictatorship of the proletariat), my anti-racism to my anti-socialism (socialism, like slavery, forces some to work for the unearned benefit of others) and it would be a slam dunk in todays world to connect both to my pro outsourcing, pro free markets, pro globalization stance (just go to india and china tell me what has liberated people more. and when clinton and obama talked anti-nafta in ohio, do you think that intersected with xenophobia?)

but would it be fair for me to ask you all to abandon your progressive politics in the name of feminism and anti-racism?

By: Bq

Bq — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:53:39 +0000

Manju, so you’re arguing one should not look at how various issues outside the choice/stay-at-home purview? So the feminization of poverty worldwide from structural adjustment programs and neoliberalism, the rape of women in wartime, and the fact that environmental pollution poisons women’s breast milk are irrelevant issues? There are a lot of different things that exacerbate gender inequality, and we should ignore those things because intersectionality is off-putting to you? Just because black feminism and post-colonial feminism is a useless appendage to you doesn’t mean it is to everyone.

By: amandaw

amandaw — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:52:52 +0000

I have an idea for a performance art piece. White feminists can have my left arm, Black racemen can have my right arm. My right arm will be the piece of me that’s all about race. My left arm will be the piece of me that’s all about gender. My left leg, that’ll be for the disability movement. My right leg, that’s going to the socialist revolution. But my vagina – oh my god, who will have my vagina????

oh my god i think i love you