Comments on: Dear Feminist Bloggers of the Radical Persuasion: What Choices *Are* Neutral? http://nataliaantonova.com/2008/04/21/dear-feminist-bloggers-of-the-radical-persuasion-what-choices-are-neutral/ The sky is high. The Czar is far. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: belledame222 http://nataliaantonova.com/2008/04/21/dear-feminist-bloggers-of-the-radical-persuasion-what-choices-are-neutral/#comment-17714 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:46:29 +0000 http://nataliaantonova.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-17714 >>However, the issue at stake is something else entirely.

Radical feminists are treating other women like children, just like sexist men out there. The irony is thick. >>

Yup. Worse, they–at least this lot that’s calling themselves radical feminists–are acting like fundamentalists. Well, I guess the infantilization and power moves are part of it, as is the banging-head-against-a-brick-wall phenomenon.

]]> By: Lisa Harney http://nataliaantonova.com/2008/04/21/dear-feminist-bloggers-of-the-radical-persuasion-what-choices-are-neutral/#comment-17697 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:25:38 +0000 http://nataliaantonova.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-17697 Yeah, what Lal said about radical feminists treating other women like children.

I notice a very strong current of:

* Never ever ever question another radical feminist’s choices and prejudices. Everything they do must be right, except

* radical feminists who question radical feminism or radical feminists must be repudiated. See the recent transphobia in radical feminism dustup

* radical feminists are allowed to question every other woman’s choices without limit or restraint, refer to those women with dehumanizing, bigoted, misogynist terms, and then clutch their pearls and faint when called on said hypocrisy.

Talking to them is exhausting.

]]> By: Lal http://nataliaantonova.com/2008/04/21/dear-feminist-bloggers-of-the-radical-persuasion-what-choices-are-neutral/#comment-17691 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:48:18 +0000 http://nataliaantonova.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-17691 Like Parallel, I most definitely do not like the sex industry. However, the issue at stake is something else entirely.

Radical feminists are treating other women like children, just like sexist men out there. The irony is thick.

Good job, Nat, as always.

And now I go back to lurking…

]]> By: Renegade Evolution http://nataliaantonova.com/2008/04/21/dear-feminist-bloggers-of-the-radical-persuasion-what-choices-are-neutral/#comment-17686 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:44:56 +0000 http://nataliaantonova.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-17686 Parallel- I won’t ever demand anyone say anything.

]]> By: parallelsidewalk http://nataliaantonova.com/2008/04/21/dear-feminist-bloggers-of-the-radical-persuasion-what-choices-are-neutral/#comment-17678 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:34:04 +0000 http://nataliaantonova.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-17678 I’m somewhere in between you guys. I dislike sex work philosophically and despise the sex industry as a whole on a practical basis. I wouldn’t want my daughter working in it, so I’m hard pressed to find a reason to say that other peoples’ daughters working in it is awesome. That being said, treating sex workers badly is reprehensible, and trying to bar them, or just about anyone really, from constructive dialog is troubling to me. My negative views on the industry don’t come from any ingrained prejudice, they come more from knowing so many sex workers over time. I was actually pro-sex work when I was about twenty and even urged a female friend who was thinking about becoming a dominatrix to do so and another one to work at a local gentleman’s club. I wouldn’t do that now, especially since in the latter case I hold myself partially responsible for the coke habit she later developed. Insofar as someone like Ren is working for freedom and safety of women, I have no beef with that, but I really hope that doesn’t mean that I have to say that I think sex-work is a good thing, because I’m pretty sure I never will.

]]> By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2008-04-21 http://nataliaantonova.com/2008/04/21/dear-feminist-bloggers-of-the-radical-persuasion-what-choices-are-neutral/#comment-17668 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:29:48 +0000 http://nataliaantonova.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-17668 [...] Dear Feminist Bloggers of the Radical Persuasion: What Choices *Are* Neutral? « Natalia Antonova “Here’s my question: what sort of choices don’t have the potential to cause suffering?” (tags: feminism life blogging choice) [...]

]]> By: belledame222 http://nataliaantonova.com/2008/04/21/dear-feminist-bloggers-of-the-radical-persuasion-what-choices-are-neutral/#comment-17666 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:25:02 +0000 http://nataliaantonova.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-17666 …you, you mean…she’s an ANTI TINFOIL HAT CONSPIRACIST??

]]> By: Daisy http://nataliaantonova.com/2008/04/21/dear-feminist-bloggers-of-the-radical-persuasion-what-choices-are-neutral/#comment-17664 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:06:20 +0000 http://nataliaantonova.wordpress.com/?p=599#comment-17664 Here’s my question: what sort of choices don’t have the potential to cause suffering? Do you ride the bus to work? Congratulations, you’re helping screw-up the environment. Enjoy an occasional cup of coffee? Egads, what about the farmers? Even those fair-trade beans aren’t always healthy for their economic status in the long run. Take a nice vacation to a resort town? Tourism has its dark underbelly too.

Great point, Natalia. My supervisor doesn’t use aluminum foil and rails against it… (if she only knew that I sometimes do…ooooh!) She’s a environmental purist. Witchy is another kind of purist.

There are are purists everywhere, but they certainly don’t recognize the purism of others!

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