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MULTI_FEMINISMS

                                                             December 23, 2014
                                                             February 19, 2015
                                                             February 19, 2019
Once upon a time, I got into a fight with a
feminist internet brigade, and I got the sense
that there were a lot of corners of feminist        My impression was that they
history that were falling down the memory           were teenagers-- they
hole.                                               tended to say things much
                                                    like "But my mom said--".
So I started piecing together my grand
history and critique of feminism...
I've got a bunch of notes in this
direction, but it's a tangled mess of
various side issues:

o There's all the defensive
  butt-covering you might expect...       (No, I'm not with incel/gamergate/etc,
                                          no I don't think much of frat boy
o A difficult one-- in fact, maybe it     culture, no, I am not actually
  should be the primary lens for the      interested in making excuses for
  material-- is with the whole idea of    rapists, and yes, accusations of same
  "activism".  With activists, the        need to be investigated seriously...)
  question of what is true is often
  subservient to what's effective, and                          ASTERIX
  effectiveness is, if anything,
  harder to establish than truth, and
  there's a constant suspicion that
  activists play too loosely with
  fact.

o the definition of what exactly you
  mean by feminism.  There are various
  takes on it used at different times      Then there's a rhetorical dodge
  and places and by different people,      popular with critics of feminism,
  and many self-styled feminists are       they use a label like "radical" or
  very huffy about insisting on a          "extreme", so no one can come back
  particular definition (even if they      "but not all!".  This strikes me as
  don't always use it themselves).         at best intellectual lazy.  You need
                                           to *say* what exactly is radical or
  I considered using the title             extreme and ideally you should
  "feminisms", and then noted that         explain why those are bad.
  some other people have already       
  gone there.  Since it'S entirely                 Usually the labels
  possible that there are multiple                 "radical" or "extreme" have
  perceptions of the range of                      negative connotations, as
  "feminisms", in order avoid                      opposed to, say, "serious"
  horrible confusion I am using the                or "mainstream".
  phrase "multi-feminisms".            
                                                   Though some actually might
  But the original source material                 consider "extreme" or
  I was writing is such an unwieldy                "radical" as positive
  mess, I'll probably never finish                 attributes...
  it-- and if I did, what would I     
  do with it, publish it as a book?                (I certainly would, provided
  So instead let's raid it for bits                it was a radical extreme that
  that I can stick here for now--                  actually worked.)
                                     
                                 



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