QUOTE: Maybe it's the fact that I was indoctrinated into feminism at an early age, but I agree with all of this Diotima post. Especially:
"So let's go back to my example of the way women's bodies are treated in our culture. I think it's awful. I hate the mainstreaming of pornography; I hate Stuff; I hate frat parties; I hate girls jumping on trampolines. There are women who think this all is empowering; they're wrong. But if one allowed the truth about women to be defined merely by adding up women's subjective experiences, you could never make any judgments about when things are bad for women."
though it is a little odd to express your distaste for Stuff and then go ahead and link to them, but, I suppose, that's because Ms. Butler is much more fairminded in her dislikes than I am.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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