For the record I’m a vegetarian and the idea of chicory ice-cream makes me want to heave. But thanks to you lot, I actually bought a box of Weetbix last week, for the first time in decades. I hope you’re listening Weetbix manufacturers, the feminists are giving your profits a boost.
There are many issues which unite people of different political and ideological persuasions.
Opposition to the Adani coal mine in Australia has an opposition formed of groups who are usually political opponents, but they are united in thinking this a bad idea. It doesn’t mean the leftist Greens are suddenly conservative religious, but that they are in agreement with Catholic bishops that the mine is a bad thing.
I’m startled at the idea that feminists will become nazis if they don’t condemn Posie Parker for talking to conservative groups. For a start, respectful dialogue is always useful, but more importantly, there are umpteen million feminists in the world, Posie represents herself and her organisation. There’s no secret feminist cabal
It’s like expecting Australian-born Muslims to make a point of condemning the Paris terrorist attacks. Sharing a belief doesn’t make you responsible for every other person who shares that belief.
I used to teach a leadership exercise. The predominantly male groups constructed a hierarchy of control within the first five minutes. It was a rare group who could resist automatically appointing a leader.
Toril Moi once talked about phallocentricity as a drive for a centrality of control. Plurality is an affront to hierarchies.
But on this thread women are explicitly rejecting social hierarchies and male-dominated political constructions in favour of plurality.
Although the OP and followers are deeply annoying, I think their insistence that feminists agree with their dualist version of events has acted like grit in an oyster and brought into prominence a pearl of wisdom.