*But once you have identified the sinners within the crowd polluting Real Feminism Like What Good Feminists Do without bothering and upsetting males, what exactly will happen next?
Are we talking close formation tutting?
Is Posie going to Glare at them?
A pen of some kind?
Removing them from the Christmas card list?
Defriending them on Fb?
Stakes and firewood?*
@ImherewithBoudica
What happens next is a good question. Firstly, the motherfuckers should repent. A tambourine would see to that.
Oh gods, one does Wonder what their Endgame is. What do the Real Feminists really expect of people? Whenever I speak to students about this (feminism) most of them, both women and men, are dismissive and want to make sure the others know they are NOT Feminists or man haters. It is the first thing that happens. But when we talk about the real life aims and don’t call them feminism, most if not all agree totally. It’s just common sense. It is fair and offers opportunities to all.
so The Real Feminists have a real problem with image. And with History it seems. And Herstory too, to be pernickety. Throughout time women have had to put their political differences to the side to make real changes.
You in the UK (or USA) never had much of this beyond the Battle for legal abortion; but in other European countries and certainly in Scandinavia policies regarding maternity pay, Parental pay, access to education and the general workforce were created by women regardless of political affiliation. This was in the 1970s and 1980s. Crucial to this was the creation of readily available and heavily subsidised childcare for children from age 9/12 months until school age 6/7 years. This allowed all women the possibility to join the workforce. In addition, my country had extended parental pay for those who wished to stay at home with their child until their 3rd birthday. After that you could choose nursery (at £2-300 a month for full time cover) or of course you could stay at home if finances allowed.
A generous paternity pay for 3/6 months also came from the late 90-s if I recall correctly.
It is concerning that there is such a divide between The Real Feminists and The Others. «We who have not read Dworkin because we could not be arsed.» and others Others too, of course.
To be honest, I read Beavoir and then about her situation with Sartre, and then about the sexual revolution; and none of that appeals to me.
I was not welcome with the Real Feminists as a student because I pointed out that a women’s experience of pregnancy and birth, and a fair chunk of time after, is vastly different from a man’s. And crucial to the survival of the human race and should perhaps be valued thereafter? Intellect, interests, hobbies and general parking abilities are not sex related, but which role you have in procreation IS. (Difference in physical strength too. I am 4,10. Any teenage boy or man my size could send me flying without much effort).
This is the basis for my firm belief in the facts of material reality. This and the knowledge that throughout all of western History at least, women have mostly had few rights or roles beyond what their biology have afforded them. The right to education, to the money they earned, to property, to their children has not been a given.
ok. Epic rant over.