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[JohnT]

Originally posted by Stefu
Wasn't Imran supposed to be using the word 'womyn' at some phase, whatever happened with that

He stopped sleeping with her, and thus relapsed back to his boyish ways.

[BeBMan]

Those genes are some smart bastards!

[JohnT]

Originally posted by BeBro
Those genes are some smart bastards!

Brilliant!

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Az
btw, what's with that "womyn" thingee?

"womyn" is a silly linguistic change espoused by feministics of the Radical stripe. I'd be more receptive to the idea if the word "woman" phonetically rhymed with "man", but it doesn't IMHO.

Dworkin was a Radical feminist, so the ill-timed mockery is not entirely out of context.

Some Woman:
I was discussing my previous journal entry with my boyfriend tonight, and he was a bit bothered by the misuse of the label "radical feminist." He asked that I might consider clarifying the differences between the four m

The definitions below are taken verbatim from here. Though the source is political, these definitions are consistent with what I know, and are purely academic in nature.

• Liberal feminism emphasizes social and legal reforms through policies designed to create equal opportunities for women, thereby assuming that changes in socialization practices and the reeducation of the public will result in more liberated and egalitarian gender relations. It underpins mainstreaming efforts that lead to extensive changes in women's legal rights and status.


• Marxist feminism sees capitalism's class relations as the root cause of the oppression, exploitation and discrimination experienced by women. Under capitalism, the family system characteristic of modern societies can socialize or force women into unpaid domestic labor that benefits men. Marxist feminism, in contrast, does not see men per se as the "enemy" -- both working class women and men are exploited by capitalism, which must be overthrown to create a more equal and equitable society. It asserts that, except for their sex, working class women have more in common with working class men than with upper class women.


• Socialist feminism sees the origins of women's oppression in the systems of patriarchy and capitalism. It underscores how the relations between capital and patriarchy bring about women's subordinate status. There is, therefore, a need to transform capitalism simultaneously with the struggle against male domination and to surface the gender perspective in all social, political, economic and cultural issues. Socialist feminism, especially for women in developing countries, has worked at overcoming gender blindness in the struggle for development and against shared oppression of women due to class, race, religion or citizenship.


• Radical feminism looks at gender as the primary form of oppression and sees class and race as extensions of patriarchal domination. Most of its strategies are focused on reshaping consciousness and redefining social relations to create a woman-centered culture. Sometimes featuring a rigid rejection of men as a dominant class, radical feminism emphasizes the positive capacities of women by focusing on the creative dimensions of women's experiences. It also serves as the cutting edge of the women's movement, exploring vast tracks of unknown grounds in seeking women's liberation.

I, for example, fall within the liberal feminist category. I don't believe that our social system is fundamentally broken, but, rather, that we can work within it to effect change. The ideas discussed in my prior journal entry that were labeled "radical feminist" most likely also fall under liberal feminism as well.

Based on those blurbs, I am probably a Liberal with Marxist tendencies.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Space05us


To help those of you who are gender-confused. From left to right; man, woman, man, man.

edit: oops.

Well, since I look like none of those, I am not of either of those genders.

Whatever.

In the seven-gender system of Greg Egan's Distress, the pictured would be of the ultra-female and the ultra-male varieties. I am more of an infra-male.

[JohnT]

In the seven-gender system of Greg Egan's Distress, the pictured would be of the ultra-female and the ultra-male varieties. I am more of an infra-male.

Nice, but we live in this world. The one with two genders.

[Az]

pwned

[Lancer]

Where can I find more pics of the 'woman' example? For further study of course...

[JohnT]

Here, Lancer, I have gathered rare photographic evidence of these fanciful "womyn" creatures that we are being told don't really exist!

[Az]

pig!

[Lancer]

Ah yes, I would say that meets the criteria.

[JohnT]

Only the most patriarchial misogynist claim to notice the difference between men and women just by the slight differences in facial features.

Can you tell? Man or woman?

[JohnT]

Which is the woman, which is the man?

Only the experts can tell!

[St Leo]

Originally posted by JohnT
Nice, but we live in this world. The one with two genders.

Not really. We just don't bother with a formally rigorous classification system. People are funnelled into two loose, overlapping straitjackets based on their genitalia, and that's the end of it.

Words like "tomboy", "sissy", "metrosexual", and the like exist to denote various kinds of deviation from convention. They aren't particularly systematic, but a larger picture exists.

[Az]

Oh, please... metrosexual doesn't mean not-"masculine". Sissy doesn't mean "behaving like a woman". unless you think that women are by nature frail and timid creatures.


Genderifying notions like weak, strong, fashion-aware, attentive, etc. IS THE REAL SEXISM.