I think that a backlash of resentment is predictable when those used to having the only voice that is heard and that truly matters in the grand scheme of the paradigms of real power are told that the status quo is no longer acceptable. I think it's extremist to say that your voice is halved and tenthed and even erased by your whiteness and your penis but, again, sometimes good points get through in extremes.
From a non-radical perspective, your skin and your gender provide you with unseen and unacknowledged privileges every day.
Some challenges to that are brutish and untenable, but they don't minimize or even mitigate your real-world power.
As for not wanting to call oneself feminist, that kind of shame saddens me. Rather than abandon the truth of feminism, why not reclaim it? It is and always has been about equality.
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Date: 2008-06-17 05:10 pm (UTC)I think that a backlash of resentment is predictable when those used to having the only voice that is heard and that truly matters in the grand scheme of the paradigms of real power are told that the status quo is no longer acceptable. I think it's extremist to say that your voice is halved and tenthed and even erased by your whiteness and your penis but, again, sometimes good points get through in extremes.
From a non-radical perspective, your skin and your gender provide you with unseen and unacknowledged privileges every day.
Some challenges to that are brutish and untenable, but they don't minimize or even mitigate your real-world power.
As for not wanting to call oneself feminist, that kind of shame saddens me. Rather than abandon the truth of feminism, why not reclaim it? It is and always has been about equality.