Comments | ms_xeno: No Need To Hammer It Twice, Sis

ms_xeno

No Need To Hammer It Twice, Sis

Jul 19, 2010 18:29

That nail is secure. It's not coming up out of the floor anytime soon:

"...I'm skeptical of being told that my equality within the system isn't worth fighting for because the system sucks by people who don't have to live in the sucky system with the added burden of inequality. And I don't think it has to be an either/or fight. As I've said, I ( Read more... )

isms galore, obamapologists, oh go 'credential' yourself jerkface, bring back the damn guillotine already

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anonymous July 20 2010, 02:50:29 UTC

Power structures need subject populations. Changing who holds power won't change what power does.

ms_xeno July 20 2010, 03:10:10 UTC

Is this gonna' be Battle of the Platitudes?

Fine.

Freedom is not an abstraction. Couching a discussion about real-life issues that affect day to day life in purely abstract terms is a cop-out.

Hillary Clinton's status as a warmongering asshole does not negate the benefits of feminism in day to day life. I am less than thrilled with my current life as temp wage slave, but I wouldn't choose to go back to the traditions of earlier centuries in this society: in which I would have no rights that distinguished me in any meaningful manner from a literal domestic implement.

BDB, as I said, nailed it. Being unable to fix everything is a poor excuse for not trying to do anything.

anonymous July 20 2010, 05:06:18 UTC

What platitude? It's a statement of fact. The real life condition is power. That's the problem. Inequity follows from power, not from some imbalance in the distribution of jobs, by abstracted identity ( ... )

ms_xeno July 20 2010, 05:27:52 UTC

And as I stated over at Crow's, I reject the theory that private property led to patriarchy. It's not provable by any means. And it makes no sense to me. The best I can do is possibly concur with somebody like Djikstra, who believes that the acceleration of free-market values accelerated the misogyny that was already well-entrenched in the society about which he wrote. Of course, that era also produced feminists of multiple stripes and ideologies, I believe. Much like this one.