posted 10 February 2006 08:55 AM
Anyone check out this on Free Dominion. Pretty bad stuff. Evidently put there as a refute of Betty Friedan stuff in newspapers.
Based on a book called "Women who makt the world worse."
posted 10 February 2006 09:01 AM
I don't even look at that place. I'm too afraid I'll get permanent rage issues. But I really don't know why that type of post is surprising. It's typical of the breed of people who post there.
Anyways, I'm not sure but I think discussing the other forum only leads to troll infestations. Raid can only go so far.
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posted 10 February 2006 09:13 AM
We have a thread (below) about Betty Friedan with some interesting links that actually talk about Betty Friedan, and certainly not in purely hagiographic terms.
I skimmed the FD discussion. Except for the opening post, who there is talking about Betty Friedan? It's all just caricature, except for the posts of that one woman who seems to be an equality feminist.
For me, discussions centred on American pop-media stars like Friedan or Steinem bear only the faintest relation to the real-life concerns of feminists or to serious feminist politics or history. And when those discussions are happening on FD, they are never going to rise much above the level of the fan mags at the supermarket checkouts.
posted 10 February 2006 09:51 AM
Frankly, I don't see why we would waste our time looking at FD. Nor do I see why we would devote a thread to feminism's impact on "America" - does that refer to the United States, or to the entire Continent? Unless it means "North America"? or is exploring the differnet impact feminism had in the US as compared with here or elsewhere?
As for Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir went into far greater depth in Le Deuxième sexe, in 1949.
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posted 10 February 2006 08:55 AM
