On Venn diagrams of allegiance
No, really, it is not a defence against your group being accused of misogyny to say 'Look! WYMMYNZ among us!'.
Yeah, like women can't be misogynistic and see themselves as Different From The Rest, one of the Cool Girls/consider other women to be rivals/etc etc.
I can think of quite a lot of women to whom this applies, not to mention that longstanding phenomenon of the woman who makes a very nice career for herself by being anti-feminist, instructing other women about their inferiority and need to submit to The Man, etc etc etc.
(I am so going to quote Alix Strachey, letter to her husband James from Berlin, 1924, where she was undergoing psychoanalysis: It is queer how these obviously domineering & passionate women react against their emancipation so violently. What does it mean?
Yes, what does it mean, eh?)
Don't we all have the desire to be together with people who confirm some particular world view, but also allegiances to various groups that may cut across one another in various ways?
(Though on reflection I don't think e.g. my placing getting the history right, or as right as one can, trumps my feminism: bad history does it no service.)
Another vagrant thought about current furore: people who level accusations that the vast conspiracy they posit are just looking for reasons to be offended and whiney babies, should perhaps not recount the searing aggrieved anecdotes about how they were completely turned off participating in wider community events because members of the posited conspiracy were nasty to them? (just how MANLY is that?) This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2256266.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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