I've actually met one or two, and they were quite unpleasant on the whole. It pervaded everything they did and said and were. Okay, I get the idea of being obsessed, but being obsessed with whether your gender is better or worse or more equal or less, all the time, seems a bit on the unhealthy side to me. I mean, I don't really spend the majority of my days obsessing about what's between my legs versus someone else's, and what this says about us.
Then again, I don't have to, because of things like having the vote, and affirmative action, and a number of other rights that I usually take for granted -- until I hear someone speak/act as if these are all rights that could be so easily disregarded. That's my other hot button, affirmative action, which does dovetail with feminism.
I'm sometimes annoyed about the fact that I still earn only about 85 cents on the dollar compared to male coworkers, but it's still a hell of a sight better than the 45 cents my mother earned at my age. It's not perfect, but every now and then ya gotta look back and say, "wow, we have come a long way." I suppose what bothers me most about some radical feminists is that too often their dialogue seems tilted towards the half-empty, instead of seeing the half-full. Still only half, but come ON, just between our grandmothers' generation and now, amazing leaps...
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Date: 4 Aug 2005 11:36 pm (UTC)Then again, I don't have to, because of things like having the vote, and affirmative action, and a number of other rights that I usually take for granted -- until I hear someone speak/act as if these are all rights that could be so easily disregarded. That's my other hot button, affirmative action, which does dovetail with feminism.
I'm sometimes annoyed about the fact that I still earn only about 85 cents on the dollar compared to male coworkers, but it's still a hell of a sight better than the 45 cents my mother earned at my age. It's not perfect, but every now and then ya gotta look back and say, "wow, we have come a long way." I suppose what bothers me most about some radical feminists is that too often their dialogue seems tilted towards the half-empty, instead of seeing the half-full. Still only half, but come ON, just between our grandmothers' generation and now, amazing leaps...