I am also interested in gender politics. I started off with reflexively feminist views, yet I soon realized flaws in certain types of feminism. Like with religions, I think that there some really positive goals and ideas in feminism, and some really negative ones, all mixed together with really bad epistemic hygiene.
There are more rational formulations of some feminist ideas, yet more rational feminists often fail to criticize less rational feminists (instead calling them “brilliant” and “provocative”), causing a quality control problem leading to dogmatism and groupthink. I am one of the co-bloggers on FeministCritics.org, where we try to take a critical but fair look at feminism and start dialogues with feminists. I’m not very active there anymore, but here’s an example of the kind of epistemic objections that I make towards feminism.
My eventual goal is to formulate a gender politics that subsumes the good things about feminism.
I am also interested in gender politics. I started off with reflexively feminist views, yet I soon realized flaws in certain types of feminism. Like with religions, I think that there some really positive goals and ideas in feminism, and some really negative ones, all mixed together with really bad epistemic hygiene.
There are more rational formulations of some feminist ideas, yet more rational feminists often fail to criticize less rational feminists (instead calling them “brilliant” and “provocative”), causing a quality control problem leading to dogmatism and groupthink. I am one of the co-bloggers on FeministCritics.org, where we try to take a critical but fair look at feminism and start dialogues with feminists. I’m not very active there anymore, but here’s an example of the kind of epistemic objections that I make towards feminism.
My eventual goal is to formulate a gender politics that subsumes the good things about feminism.