Feelings! Feelings are good! Feelings are draining though. Which is why I still aspire to be an automaton on certain days. :'D
♥ Your rage was very coherent though, and enlightening. The cultural relativistic position makes me sigh a little. It always treads so close to ethnocentricism. So close.
Feelings are good. Feelings are passionate, and passion is what gets people motivated to actually do shit. :) I'm proud of you, for all the thought you've put into this. Because even though you say you "just" have feelings, these feelings have clearly inspired a lot of thought and reflection
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THIS. This is exactly what we talk about all the time in my Ethics class, about a universal set of human rights that everyone can subscribe to, and how people continue to justify their atrocities by going all OH OH CULTURAL IMPERIALISM HOW DARE YOU TRY TO FOIST YOUR MORAL VALUES ON US. At times like these I wish there was some way we could just make everyone agree on what the right thing to do should be (if there ever is even something as the right thing to do on a global scale) but mostly I am just sitting there going, oh, STUFF IT, there is NO WAY you can pull the western/cultural imperialism crap on us when you are STONING WOMEN TO DEATH FOR ADULTERY and, just, kshahknfkshfk. As you may already be aware, I too have very strong feelings about these things, and sometimes it is just so frustrating (not to mention heartbreaking) but we keep reading anyway. Just because
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I'm probably grossly simplifying the issue but my idea of feminism is just 'women should be able to do what they want (within law) and not be ill-judged for their decisions'. If a Muslim woman wants to wear a hijab, sure okay, she has her own reasons; there's so much more cultural significance to the hijab other than GAAAH OPPRESSION!! Similarly, if a woman wants to be a stay-at-home mom/housewife/etc, she's not renouncing all the work the feminism movement has done. She's not any less powerful of a woman compared to the one that's working 9-5, CEO of a company.
That said, I think political and cultural concerns should have a very minimal role in the feminism movement. There is no justification for mysogynist treatment, which I define as anything that violates the universal human rights. But if a woman want to honor traditions including (what would be considered) mysogynist aspects, then that's her perogative.
Again, I totally oversimplified the issue, probably.
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♥ Your rage was very coherent though, and enlightening. The cultural relativistic position makes me sigh a little. It always treads so close to ethnocentricism. So close.
Need to get to class, but ♥
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That said, I think political and cultural concerns should have a very minimal role in the feminism movement. There is no justification for mysogynist treatment, which I define as anything that violates the universal human rights. But if a woman want to honor traditions including (what would be considered) mysogynist aspects, then that's her perogative.
Again, I totally oversimplified the issue, probably.
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