Posted by: parallelsidewalk | January 28, 2008
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Responses
Emma Goldman once said
“Are we to assume that the poison already inherent in politics will be decreased, if women were to enter the political arena?”
The same goes for any sort of unusual ‘minority’ candidate, any special interest candidate.
Hillary Clinton is a woman, but not a feminist.
Barack Obama is a black man, but not a black nationalist.
These people don’t represent any kind of non-superficial ‘change’.
The feminist texts I’ve been reading lately, bell hooks, inga muscio, so forth, talk with a tone of sadness how girls today and in times past, to have any sort of powerful identity had to distance themselves from their femininity and assume all the trappings of a male, albeit, without the priveliges and only more insecurities.
To become powerful in this capitalist, patriarchal, white supremacist society is not to take pride in oneself for oneself’s individual awesome radness and identity; it is to attempt to become as much like the rich white man on top as possible.
Thus, Obama is a Tom and Clinton has been rightly (and for all my feminist sympathies, unfortunately) dubbed Billary.
There is no good candidate. There is no one on top who hasn’t sold their soul to the highest bidder, the white rich satans who break the planet to see what they can find inside and sell.
By: jacob on January 31, 2008
at 1:16 pm
I don’t think the onus should just be on women to be feminist. Or should be be off ANYONE to care about equality. I wish I had the time back that I wasted reading “Cunt,” I mean seriously, zzzZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
By: Nadia on January 31, 2008
at 9:14 pm
I hear that.
I do my best to divest of male privilege and be open to how I act in patriarchal ways, be as much of a feminist as I can.
Inga Muscio is nowhere near as interesting (or succinct!) as bell hooks.
By: jacob on February 1, 2008
at 3:03 am
I can’t define feminism at all, so I don’t say that I am or that I’m not, really. I’d like to think I am but by the standards of every Womens’ Studies major I’ve ever met, I’m a misogynist caveman.
By: parallelsidewalk on February 2, 2008
at 5:00 pm
I have never taken women’s studies: true story.
By: Nadia on February 2, 2008
at 8:01 pm
