Quite. I’m not sure to what degree I should take eridu’s statements as representative of radical feminism, but insofar as they are accurate I think we might best fact-check them by isolating domains where radical feminism predicts no improvement from non-radical feminist prescriptions, finding places where social change has occurred in those domains, and comparing results. Such domains should exist if radical feminism has coherent goals, though I’ve no idea what they are. For reasons outlined in the grandparent I don’t expect this to be a knockout for or against the ideology even if we manage to do it, but it’d be a good start.
The heuristics I mentioned were intended to be useful from an outside view; radical feminism rejects them more or less by hypothesis.
Such domains should exist if radical feminism has coherent goals, though I’ve no idea what they are.
Other than the elimination of gender, you mean ? I think that is a perfectly clear and even measurable goal, though IMO it borders on unachievable, for a variety of reasons.
That said, your proposed methodology is valid, but I think we might have to wait for eridu (*) to provide some additional goals before we can apply it.
(*) Or any other radical feminist, I don’t want to single eridu out unfairly.
Well, I’m assuming here that radical feminism isn’t proposing the elimination of structures associated with gender for shits and giggles, but rather believes that eliminating those structures will improve people’s lives in ways that feminisms wishing to maintain them can’t.
Quite. I’m not sure to what degree I should take eridu’s statements as representative of radical feminism, but insofar as they are accurate I think we might best fact-check them by isolating domains where radical feminism predicts no improvement from non-radical feminist prescriptions, finding places where social change has occurred in those domains, and comparing results. Such domains should exist if radical feminism has coherent goals, though I’ve no idea what they are. For reasons outlined in the grandparent I don’t expect this to be a knockout for or against the ideology even if we manage to do it, but it’d be a good start.
The heuristics I mentioned were intended to be useful from an outside view; radical feminism rejects them more or less by hypothesis.
Other than the elimination of gender, you mean ? I think that is a perfectly clear and even measurable goal, though IMO it borders on unachievable, for a variety of reasons.
That said, your proposed methodology is valid, but I think we might have to wait for eridu (*) to provide some additional goals before we can apply it.
(*) Or any other radical feminist, I don’t want to single eridu out unfairly.
Well, I’m assuming here that radical feminism isn’t proposing the elimination of structures associated with gender for shits and giggles, but rather believes that eliminating those structures will improve people’s lives in ways that feminisms wishing to maintain them can’t.