Comments | bellatrys: Owning Our Shit, or, If We Can't Be Bothered To Do It, Who Else Can We Expect To Fix Our Mess?

bellatrys

Owning Our Shit, or, If We Can't Be Bothered To Do It, Who Else Can We Expect To Fix Our Mess?

Oct 28, 2009 06:02

A short while back, I was in a situation where the only book on hand to read was a novel by somebody I'd never read nor heard of, of that genre that is hard to nail down, the quasi-mystery novel which is often called "suspense" or "thriller" but which would be most accurately called "serial-killer fear porn" in most cases - they were very big ( Read more... )

economics, history, exceptionalism, politics, intersectionality, ethics, sexism, liberal arrogance, imperialism

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fledgist October 28 2009, 14:59:21 UTC

Good piece. Well thought out, but you might want to edit this:

I have been essentially unable to read Feministe, Pandagon and Feministe for a long time.

violaswamp October 28 2009, 18:24:29 UTC

Hmmm. I get your basic point, but yes, there is a HUGE difference between Mrs. Schmoe and Ann Coulter. I'm curious as to what exactly you are blaming our hypothetical Mrs. Schmoe for that Pandagon/Feministe/et al aren't. Child abuse? Ignoring rape jokes?

violaswamp October 28 2009, 18:32:12 UTC

And the difference between the woman doing what it takes to get ahead and the corporatists is that the former has little power and the latter has a lot. This is not to excuse the average Jane at all, but generally it's more productive to kick up rather than down.

fledgist October 28 2009, 23:33:52 UTC

True. I take her point, though, to be that the average person who is compliant with the system ought to do something that rejects, or, at a minimum, questions that compliance.