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[Poll #1429518]
Re: The structure of seeming.
Date: 2009-07-14 06:40 pm (UTC)http://imomus.livejournal.com/356429.html
someone directly asks you this question:
if you were around 100 years ago, would you have supported the Suffragettes? Do you think that anything they gained, such as the right to vote or sit in parliament, has merely perpetuated women's perceived weaknesses?
Your windy response can be summed up as "no".
You're a gender essentialist, as is clear in this thread:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=46954
where you accuse a movie of bad faith because it shows Jodie Foster as an engineer, which you say is "was a lie, a lie about women." because women, in reality, are no good with technical things.
Re: The structure of seeming.
Date: 2009-07-14 07:10 pm (UTC)Re: The structure of seeming.
Date: 2009-07-14 11:41 pm (UTC)Um, no it can't. I called the campaign for female suffrage "laudable" but said that it was only half the battle:
"Let me put it this way. If we imagine a world where only women have the vote, do men want it too? Or do they stigmatize voting and try to organize the world in smoke-filled back rooms instead (while perhaps arranging votes as a figleaf, Putin-style)?
"I find it very interesting that Adam Curtis, in Century of the Self, shows that, during the laudable struggle of women to get the right to endorse the careers of men via the ballot box and use of "something women don't have" (the vote), showed a parallel development: the first successful PR campaign, devised by Freud's nephew, to get women to smoke. The cigarette was marketed to them as.... well, something else only men have.
"I'm personally waiting for things that only women have to become the root of marketing strategy before I call the gender war for the women."