Is feminism divisive?

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I try to respond to the comment that feminism is divisive in a clarifying way.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 6, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Author: nuclearnight

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BTTHEBAND (November 30, 2008 at 11:32 pm)
I admit to having many misconceptions about feminists... I think of them as militant, woman supremacists, looking for nothing else but the downfall of mankind. I know that's not true. Most feminists are looking for equal opportunities and rights for both sexes, as well, some even believe that our patriarchal society oppresses men almost as much as it oppresses women. Of course just like all beliefs there are extremists, and those are the people I never agree with.
nuclearnight (November 30, 2008 at 11:53 pm)
There are different kinds of feminists, there's the bourgeoise feminists who think that some women having privledges is going to trickle down to all other women, there's radical feminists who blame for women's oppression, not any material foundation, there's men and women in between, and there's socialist feminists like me who blame women's oppression on private property and are militant in fighting for women's rights and against capitalism.
nuclearnight (October 22, 2008 at 11:20 am)
your overwhelming desire to pamper a woman has nothing to do with my video.
decorao (October 6, 2008 at 9:14 am)
Editorialist: ZOMG Modernism fail

Please check your meta-narratives at the door.

For a meaningful discussion of the (critical) importance of the feminist perspective in understanding labor movements and class consciousness, please refer to Joan Scott's GENDER AND THE POLTIICS OF HISTORY (1988), particularly chapter three.

The post-structuralists left you little tykes behind 20 years ago.

That is all.
TheEditorialist (June 27, 2008 at 12:37 pm)
"I agree that the feminist majority, NOW, NARAL pro choice america, are tools of the ruling class."
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Then stay away from it, imo.
Marxists have no place in a bourgeoise movement and that's all feminism is in America.

It wasn't always that way. But the Marxist-feminist movement was effectively hijacked by the FBI in the late 60's, about the same time the SDS was infiltrated and shutdown.
Why a young Marxist today would continue to affiliate with that morally bankrupt group is beyond me.
nuclearnight (June 27, 2008 at 1:00 pm)
I do stay away from the all those groups, I'm a member of radical women, an autonomous socialist-feminist organization which is independent of the rest of the women's movement.
TheEditorialist (June 27, 2008 at 1:03 pm)
Cool.
When you guys form a front at the next WTO conference let me know.

I'll bring the bail money.
nuclearnight (June 27, 2008 at 1:15 pm)
where will you get the bail money for that?
TheEditorialist (June 27, 2008 at 1:44 pm)
I'm not poor. I trade commodity futures and we're in a big, bull market.

Let's just say that, in my personal and professional life, I identify more closely with Engels than Marx.
But I'm not really a Marxist either, just an armchair philosopher. An anti-humanist really.

Which is one of the things that kills me about modern feminist theory is that all it's premises presume the existence of "free will"

I'm sorry, was the existence of 'free will'
conclusively affirmed while I was napping?
nuclearnight (June 27, 2008 at 12:04 pm)
But I don't want to join the clubhouse, I want it burned down, and I want a world without the clubhouse, I think this is the desire of most women, and if we're fighting for our own status as equals in the working class, you see how much the the elites actually love it, if you can pay women less than men, you can pay everyone less, if men aren't defending women's rights then they still are holding on to their privledge allotted by the bosses. Not tearing down all oppression.