Letters to the Editor
healthyskeptic
Published Letters: 671 Editor's Choice: 14
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post feminist
[Read the article: "I'll be post-feminist in a post-patriarchy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More like they'll be post-feminist when there is nothing left of it, after they've completely repulsed all the men and women alike and utterly run contemporary feminism into the ground.
BS, feministing and such are to feminism what the neocons are to Foreign Policy.
Fossilized FUBARS comprised of the ideologically zealous dregs of otherwise legitimate movements, now past their moment in history.
Neocons never got internationalism because their tendencies are towards aggression and specifically anti-Arab and anti-European militancy after WWII and the holocaust. They can't get past personal traumas and militant colonialism in what Brzezinski rightly dubs the post-colonial era. These guys are damaged goods and their own worst enemy.
3rd wave feminists never got humanism, and are just recycling the radical and militant aspects of feminism past which they're attracted to. It's sprinkled with a bit of glitter, to attempt to glamorize Dworkin and rekindle gender wars, inappropriate in the humanist era. These gals are damaged goods and their own worst enemy.
The one difference is that Neocons actually seized power, while 3rd wave feminism is continually declining and mostly just annoys people.
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Dworkin
[Read the article: "I'll be post-feminist in a post-patriarchy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These books argued that feminists, with their offputting rhetoric and excessive claims, were responsible for alienating women from their own cause. -- Deborah Siegel
Like Dworkin for example? Or a whole slew of the most prevalent feminists who basically talked craziness for two decades?
Militant feminism of the 60's and 70's, and the attempt to mainstream much of the dogma in the 80's, is what drove away, and continues to drive away most people from feminism. Many 3rd wave feminists are still repeating much of what Dworkin argued, including implicit victimization mindset (though it's denied, while continually reinforced) about ridiculous standards of rape and criminality, absurdly ideological views of oppressive patriarchy, and generally promoting a gender war.
Radical feminism self destructed contemporary feminism and the accomplishment of many of feminism's earlier goals, such as movement towards equality of oppurtunity, has moved many previously feminist men and women towards humanism, and away from the craziness still prevalent in radical feminism including 3rd wave.
3rd wave feminists can deny the negative stereotypes forever. It's manifest in what they say every day.
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-- flyover52
[Read the article: Miss dumb blond USA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's irrelevant. The question presumed the truthfulness of the study, and her job was to respond to the implications of the study.
Regardless, she didn't either answer the question well, or challenge the question. Her answer was stupid.
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-- flyover52
[Read the article: Miss dumb blond USA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and btw, the easy answer was: "more emphasis on teaching geography."
It really was lobbed over the plate for her. She was supposed to hit a home run and give the illuson of a brain to avert cliams beauty contests are totally superficial.
If that's a hard question for anyone here...
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flyover52
[Read the article: Miss dumb blond USA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It would have been easy enough for them to ask the students to point out all 50 states in the U.S.A., but they did not, even though they knew that many schools still use maps with U.S.A. printed on the first 48 states.
btw, that's a pretty lame excuse. They didn't say point out only the 48 contiguous states. The question was to point out all the United States of America.
If students don't know that Alaska and Hawaii are states in the USA, and can't point that out on a map, that's exactly the problem.
Are you in a flyover state by the way? Or just chose that name to troll the topic?
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-- Christopher1988
[Read the article: Does Blockbuster edit its movies?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]BB has diversified recently due to market pressure, after resisting for a long time. BB however is still very conservative and behind the curve.
It was not in their nature or ideology to be open and truly market based, without censorship. It was in their executive natiure to influence and censor and use monopolist tactics to promote thier personal ideology, conservatism, and religion.
It's fair to assume that given a chance they will revert to censorship and monopolistic practices, and that as a competitor they will continue to remain behind the curve in the total sum of their practices. As is also the case with WALMART despite efforts o be a bit more green.
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-- Christopher1988
[Read the article: Does Blockbuster edit its movies?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Also, your American Pie story is really weird.
That wasn't my story as you imply.
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to anyone suprised by Manjoo's latest
[Read the article: Does Blockbuster edit its movies?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Get a clue.
Machinist and Broadsheet are tabloid click generators to get salon more ad revenue. They're unintelligent by design. Manjoo and the BS fluffers aren't exactly world class writers now are they?
They're totally random. They're both trying to simultaneously tittilate the audience while remaining PC.
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-- Casual Interest
[Read the article: Miss dumb blond USA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You claim Andrew Burke has only a superficial knowledge of your country but the huge generalisations you lobbed back about Australia showed no difference on your behalf.
Genius, there is no way to discuss entire cultures without generalizing. Culture itself is a generalization of individual traits. Not all generalizations are equal.
Instead of "Casual Interest" I think "Limited Interest Due To Intellectual Laziness" might be a more descriptive moniker for you, generally.
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-- Andrew Burke
[Read the article: Miss dumb blond USA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey healthyskeptic, relax. You're being overly aggressive.
I'm fine thanks. I'm just responding to your aggressive assertions that are also factually lacking and uninformed. Such as:
In my view the USA's introspection has nothing to do with being a superpower.
Which is simply wrong and lacking an understanding of root causes of the US being a superpower, and the underlying psychology and Realpolitik, which are one and the same with US popular cultural isolationism. Centrally controlled superpowers throughout history tend to be thus. Egypt and China for other examples. Rome was more a decentralized multicultural Republic, as were Greek city state and other examples of multi-cultural civilizations dominant in their era.
If Australia was suddenly made the most powerful nation on earth, odds are it would become much more isolationistic culturally, and perhaps imperialistic otherwise, in short order. It's human nature. Avoiding that requires an enlightenment.
I actually agree with most of what you've said, and the rest is not very important.
Good. Then spare us the tedious unsubstantial assertions next time.