The Wanderground
There are no words more obscene than "I can't live without you." Count them the deepest affront to the person. (3)
This idea is presented in the opening chapter of Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground and, based on this, among other elements of that first chapter, I thought I might like this book. This does turn out to be an important idea in ( Read more... )
This idea is presented in the opening chapter of Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground and, based on this, among other elements of that first chapter, I thought I might like this book. This does turn out to be an important idea in ( Read more... )
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eeeeeeeeeeek.
Your use of the phrase "benign male character" made me grin.
This is the sort of exclusionary spiritual feminism that makes me want to tear out my hair. I mean, really? You think your separatism is helping? *sigh*
...speaking of separatism, done marginally right, have you read Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids? The second book (Humans) kind of falls apart, IMO, and I couldn't bear to read the third (Hybrids), but the first one is quite well done. And approaches separate-but-equal and and sort of Big-Brother society as if they weren't bad things. It was fascinating.
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And yeah, I actually have pretty major problems with this kind of feminism, not only for its own sake but because it has managed to give so many people the wrong idea about what feminists are trying to do, making developing any kind of useful feminist awareness that much harder.
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