this is sort of the sweet/office job/yuppie blog version of similar ideas and arguments. more milquetoast, but safe for manly consumption.
should feminist arguments be made more palatable to men? i used to wonder about that when i taught a brief unit on women's issues in the "ethics and values" course i taught at UVSC to classes full of the kind of sweet but kinda dumb (sorry) mormon bros who really, really don't get it.
is the aim persuasion? dworkin is tired of trying to persuade men that they should stop rape. is cajoling and coddling to try to get an argument across just more of the same submissive, threatened behavior that women want to be free from? or do we go with whatever works? does it even work? maybe we need all three of these ladies and their rhetorical stances
i'm interested to hear what you all think about these three different statements of similar arguments in terms of effectiveness, or maybe what they say about different generations of feminism. (i hope you've read more of i blame the patriarchy. the most rollicking and hilarious feminists ever.)
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ReplyDeleteHere's an interesting phenomenon--Here I am going to a women's school in Manhattan, and do you know how often feminism is an appropriate topic for discussion?
Never.
I think maybe persuading women that they deserve to be treated better than they are in the current state of affairs should probably be the first order of business.
Every time I visit IBTP, I contemplate what a product (based on the blog) named "iBlame" would look like.
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