Saturday, August 26, 2006
CLEVER GALS
Thoughts on feminism and labels from Pamela Bone:
Lifelong socialist and humanist that I am, if fighting to prevent the possibility that my granddaughters - our granddaughters - will one day be forced to wear a burka makes me right-wing, then right-wing is the label I’ll have to wear.
And further thoughts from Synova in New Mexico:
In my world the feminists had won the war and all was left was the clean-up. Not so in the middle east. In my world the mission of the feminist movement changed with the times, went on to other issues, so that now feminism has become so removed from its roots that it can’t even chose to side against a patriarchy so opressive that it makes complaining about symbolically “giving away the bride” at a wedding in the West look like petulant idiocy.