I identify with the radical feminist current of feminism, and I believe it to be the only feminist variant of feminism
That’s usually a bad sign, in my experience. It means you’re not terribly likely to notice which women’s voices are dominating the conversation, telling all the others they need to suborn their needs and interests into your vision of what feminism looks like (this happens an awful lot); do you think your take on it is really one-size-fits-all?
I see so much complaining about straw-feminism here, that it’s nice to see someone who doesn’t immediately mistake it for “making women superior” or other such rubbish show up. But I’m not sure this is a great improvement. :\
I don’t think my take on it is true, I think the radical feminist take on it is true.
Further, I think that radical feminism is the only current within broader “feminism” that accepts that “needs and interests” are frequently the product of patriarchy. To put it another way, radical feminism is the only materialist feminism, as it includes brains within the set of objects influenced by patriarchy rather than asserting that human desires are magically protected in some way.
This is a totally trivial quibble compared to the enormity of the patriarchy, however, and I’m content to let the diversity of tactics break down the problem.
That’s usually a bad sign, in my experience. It means you’re not terribly likely to notice which women’s voices are dominating the conversation, telling all the others they need to suborn their needs and interests into your vision of what feminism looks like (this happens an awful lot); do you think your take on it is really one-size-fits-all?
I see so much complaining about straw-feminism here, that it’s nice to see someone who doesn’t immediately mistake it for “making women superior” or other such rubbish show up. But I’m not sure this is a great improvement. :\
I don’t think my take on it is true, I think the radical feminist take on it is true.
Further, I think that radical feminism is the only current within broader “feminism” that accepts that “needs and interests” are frequently the product of patriarchy. To put it another way, radical feminism is the only materialist feminism, as it includes brains within the set of objects influenced by patriarchy rather than asserting that human desires are magically protected in some way.
This is a totally trivial quibble compared to the enormity of the patriarchy, however, and I’m content to let the diversity of tactics break down the problem.