My goodness.\u00a0 The local leftybloggers are having what passes for a field day in their circles with my statement, in the previous post, that I am the foremost feminist I, or (likely) you, know.<\/p>\n
Local rentablogger and (Note to super-feminist Mitch Berg<\/a>: this is why distinguishing between \u201cgender\u201d and \u201cequity\u201d feminism is prima facie<\/em> evidence that you\u2019re not a feminist:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n No,\u00a0Jeff, it’s prima\u00a0facie <\/em>evidence that you and I disagree, and that you got your views of “feminism” from the bottom of some fembot’s stiletto as it sank into your throat.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n My view of the difference between Equity and Gender feminism is coherent with, among many others, that of Camille Paglia – and if you want to tell her <\/em>that she’s, um, prima facia <\/em>not a feminist, I’ll be happy to sell tickets to people who want to watch her twist your giblets into party animal shapes (rhetorically speaking, of course).<\/p>\n \u00a0there\u2019s no equity without adjusting our view of gender.)\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s one of those statements that’s about nine syllables too long to be a protest chant, but is usually spoken\/written with about the same level of consideration – and it dodges my point (most likely without really knowing it, or why).<\/p>\n Views of gender change.\u00a0 Doy.<\/p>\n But in an age when women have, for most practical purposes, achieved equity with men in the workplace and in society (yeah, yeah, there are exceptions, bla bla bla.\u00a0 And I have a fifteen year old daughter who’d going to be going out into the world before too terribly long, so if anyone wants to compare how much they’re onto these exceptions with me, they’re in for a rude,\u00a0smugness-cracking surprise), the current strain of “gender feminists” aren’t so much “adjusting our views of gender” as they are – to quote the Friesians<\/a>\u00a0– engaging in a social revolution…:<\/p>\nSoros byatch<\/strike> talkingpointbot\u00a0Jeff Fecke notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n