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"Activism is like Nirvana" apparently.

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MontyGlee · 25/07/2014 12:38

The gist being... Moral superiority is like being a Nirvana fan; once everyone has caught on, the early adopters need to find a new band.

Well, this doesn´t really challenge the idea of legitimacy, nor acknowledge that early adopters are a shallow and vain minority. However, someone on here did claim that no progress had been made against the patriarchy, which had merely found new and more subtle ways of controlling women. Interestingly, this phrase crops up here almost exactly.

www.iea.org.uk/blog/the-economics-of-political-correctness

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BuffytheReasonableFeminist · 25/07/2014 13:29

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PetulaGordino · 25/07/2014 13:23

i think that lots of progress has been made, given the difference between the life i can lead compared to that of women in the past

but i would agree that the patriarchy has found new and possibly more sutble ways to control women (and still uses plenty of not-so-new ways), and has abused some of the tenets of earlier feminist movements to control women today

PetulaGordino · 25/07/2014 13:20

that's rather a snidey little article isn't it

comments re positionality and moral superiority are fine, but nice little anti-feminist jibes there

also not clear who the "pc brigade" are (other than feminists)