The Pratfalls of Feminism.

[ladymirth]

It's rather weird to be defending pro-life when you're pro-choice yourself.

See, the thing is, I DON'T believe that all pro-life activists are misogynists and anti-feminists. I know that the feminist agenda will always include pro-choice, but I don't see why people who cannot agree on only that aspect of feminism should be automatically disqualified from being feminists at all. 

Hence, this huge OT thread on anti_feminism . 

It's really weird. My own pro-choice beliefs are continually parrotted back at me, when all I want to say it that people who believe in pro-life aren't automatically evil. 

I just understand that pro-life women are placed in a rather impossible postion. They believe that abortion is the same as murder, and murder is basically universal morality. So of course saying "that's just your belief, and you can't impose it on me" can't fly with them. But at the same time, a lot of pro-life women care about women's rights too. 

I am honestly confused about this whole "you can be personally pro-life, but it doesn't matter as long as you're politically pro-choice" issue. Isn't pro-choice and pro-life always a political stance? You either think that women should have a choice in the matter, murder or nor murder, or you want the law to intervene and take that choice away. There's no such thing as pro-abortion, after all. 

This is why I get so tired of the feminist movement sometimes. It's as intolerant and narrow-minded as any antiquated church. You can't be feminist if you give up your career and have children, you can't be feminist if you're a devout Christian, you can't be feminist if you don't believe pornography is evil, you can't be feminist if you like blowing men, you can't be feminist if you think that sluts do exist, you can't be feminist, YOU CAN'T BE FEMINIST!

And for the love of the Mother Goddess, STOP BANDYING ABOUT THE WORD "MISOGYNY" LIKE IT'S ON CLEARANCE SALE!!

It's even more fucked up than the Monotheistic Churches. At least they've had centuries to evolve and grasp the concept of tolerance. And they're not in a constant state of war with one another now.  

Would it kill the radicals to admit that they can still disagree on certain issues, fight against each other on certain issues, and still be part of the same damn movement?

And now I'm sitting back thinking that maybe I'm the one who doesn't get it. Maybe I AM 'over-open-minded'. Will I look back on this post in another six months and groan at my own naivete? 

I'm feeling very young and uncertain today.

Comments

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

Have they no sense of irony?

No. They're all English majors.

I feel like feminists are shooting themselves in the foot by antagonizing each other needlessly...

The bigger the tent/umbrella/whatever, the more room there is for disagreements. And the less direct, visible, and/or immediate opposition, the less call there is for unity.

The more rabid they are, the more hypocritical they grow.

This is true of just about any standpoint.

As for Palin... it doesn't make sense to me. They're just angry that Hillary didn't get the nom, I think. But yeah, putting the polarity of her reproductive organs (which is no business of theirs in the first place, really) above her actual politics and qualifications (have you seen this vid?)... I just don't get it.

[ladymirth.livejournal.com]

No. They're all English majors.

Hahaha!

I can't access YouTube directly on my PC (pesky virus) but if you tell me what the title is, I can find via googlevideo.

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

The title is "Who's Sarah Palin?" And yes, if you search for it on Google, it should come up easily enough, and give you this link which is a YouTube frame with a Google Video sidebar.

[ladymirth.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Paul!

Yep, that about sums it up. And people think we can still have civil discussions about this woman?

(Great video, although I could have done without the background music. =/ )

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does sum things up rather well. Surprising what you can do with 5 minutes of video.

I do like the song (kind of grew up with it), but yeah, I'm not really sure what it added to the video.