Great article. It sums up our moment perfectly. I do wonder how many of the NGO staff a forced to to the pronoun thing because of funding requirements from the feds or outside orgs like the Ford Foundation. I do think the fashion will die eventually - but the lefties who get funding from anyway else in order to survive have capitulated fully.
FAD - Reality's a Terf. And some people say the next generation is already rolling their young eyes at 'woke' 30 year old teachers. Kids love to rebel.
But you are correct - perhaps to say this is Feminism's decadent phase. What does that mean and what should we actual women be doing is a good question. I like Judy Bindel's interview on Trigonometry - she says she sees a class divide in feminism - and that she was always interested in lfe and death issues for women - while the upper class ladies she knows for on workplace micro aggression s and even sex pay gap issues .
I watched that from start to finish. She's always entertaining and I admire her work enormously, but I don't share her quite stark worldview where every dot is connected. Men's violence (what radfems call "male pattern violence") should not define women's lives. Yes it's always a possibility; but we should live freely, as if it's not there, limiting our every move. Maybe I'll look at her new book, see if I have anything remotely interesting to say...
Great article. It sums up our moment perfectly. I do wonder how many of the NGO staff a forced to to the pronoun thing because of funding requirements from the feds or outside orgs like the Ford Foundation. I do think the fashion will die eventually - but the lefties who get funding from anyway else in order to survive have capitulated fully.
I so hope you're right. Is it a fad or is it going to stay entrenched, that is the question...
FAD - Reality's a Terf. And some people say the next generation is already rolling their young eyes at 'woke' 30 year old teachers. Kids love to rebel.
But you are correct - perhaps to say this is Feminism's decadent phase. What does that mean and what should we actual women be doing is a good question. I like Judy Bindel's interview on Trigonometry - she says she sees a class divide in feminism - and that she was always interested in lfe and death issues for women - while the upper class ladies she knows for on workplace micro aggression s and even sex pay gap issues .
I watched that from start to finish. She's always entertaining and I admire her work enormously, but I don't share her quite stark worldview where every dot is connected. Men's violence (what radfems call "male pattern violence") should not define women's lives. Yes it's always a possibility; but we should live freely, as if it's not there, limiting our every move. Maybe I'll look at her new book, see if I have anything remotely interesting to say...