The PRoblem of Feminism & A Problematic Feminist

danika_bookworm wrote:

Oh, that's what I hate about some feminists. I have a friend, and he's dating this wpman who already has a kid. HIs mom (incidentally my professor and is one of the movers of feminism in our local literature) doesn't like her, because she had an "accident" that made her pregnant. Aren't we women supposed to work together, despite the mistakes we've made in the past?

El_Kabong wrote:

manhattan is an island
like the women who are
surrounded by children in a car
surrounded by cars
or manhattan was a project
that projected the worst of mankind
first one and then the other
has made its mark on my mind

it's sixty years later
near the hypo-center of the a-bomb
i'm in the middle of hiroshima
watching a twisted old eucalyptus tree wave
one of the very few lives that survived and lives on
remembering the day it was suddenly
thousands of degrees in the shade
and what all of nature gave birth to
terror took in a blinding ray
with the kind of pain
it would take cancer so many years just to say

oh to grow up gagged and blindfolded
a man's world in your little girl's head
the voice of the great mother drowned out
in the constant honking
haunting the car crash up ahead
oh to grow up hypnotized
and try to shake yourself awake
cuz you can sense what has been lost
cuz you can sense what is at stake

yeah, so
it took me a few years to catch on
that those days i catch everyone's eye
correspond with those nights of the month
when the moon gleams like an egg in the sky
and men are using a sense
they don't even know they have
just to watch me walk by
and me, i'm supposed to be sensible
leave my animal outside to cry

but when all of nature conspires
to make me her glorious whore
it's cuz in my body i hold the secret recipe
of precisely what life is for
and the patriarchy that looks to shame me for it
is the same one making war
and i've said too much already
but i'll tell you something more

to split yourself in two
is just the most radical thing you can do
so girl if that shit ain't up to you
then you simply are not free
cuz from the sunlight on my hair
to which eggs i grow to term
to the expression that i wear
all i really own is me
yes to split yourself in two
is just the most radical thing you can do
goddess forbid that little adam
should grow so jealous of eve
and in the face of the great farce
of the nuclear age
feminism ain't about equality
it's about reprieve

NMyTree wrote:

What, not even a chuckle or giggle at my parody?

Tough crowd:D

VictoryGin wrote:

Wait. Which way do you mean this?

Thanks

ryan198 wrote:

However, this should not preclude what most feminism is based on and that is positive social change for women preferable under the auspices of women.

Coming back to life wrote:

One of the many faces of bi phobia. Along with heterophobia and homophobia, bi's also suffer from outright bi-phobia. One of its guises is in the fact that according to a minority of monosexuals (straights and gays) you can't help being straight (if the bigot is gay) or gay (if the bigot is straight). But bi people have a choice and choose to be attracted to the "wrong" sex (this is bollocks since you don't choose your sexuality). Many gay feminists (or bi feminists who convince themselves they're gay) see straight and bi women as traitors, but especially bi women as they're more traitors since they have the "choice".

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

She was very influenced by Derrida, and Lacan. She was at the vanguard of the post-structuralism, and formulated a psychoanalytic approach to linguistic signification. She argued that in the pre-linguistic stages of language acquisition, a child communicates with their mother through sound and through physicality. She argued also, that the first intervention of the father in the child's psychological development, what Freud called the oedipal stage, arrives at the same time as the beginning of learning language as words or symbols/tokens for thoughts. Spoken or written language, Kristeva proposed, is male, and phallocentric. A child loses their pre-genderedness in learning language, and is assimilated into the "symbolic order" (where words are phallic symbols of male power). Kristeva argued that, by exploring emotive vowel sounds, fluid syntax, wordplay and any stream of consciousness that breaks down traditional male, linguistic constructions of reality, a writer could subvert language from within and disrupt the symbolic order, re-discovering their pregendered voice.

Anglo-American, materialist feminists often argue that that's just a load of pretentious guff, that pleases the post-structuralists in male-dominated academies. But Kristeva's ways of looking at semiotic interventions in language provide interesting ideas for reading, say, Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, or The Waves, as novels or even prose poems, that work against previous conventions of realism.