Letters to the Editor
Linney Uston
Published Letters: 255 Editor's Choice: 5
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TCF...
[Read the article: More on the "menaissance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...Got a question for your video blog next time around, and perhaps you're enough of an expert on the subject to answer it.
I've heard it said in to reaction to criticism of feminism-- both here and on other feminist blogs-- that one cannot make general criticisms about feminism because feminism is not monolithic and extremely diverse.
And yet, this same rule doesn't apply when one wishes to PRAISE feminism. If I were to say, for instance, "feminism is the best thing since chocolate cake" now feminism IS monolithic enough to generalize about.
So how does that work, TCF? How can feminism not be monolithic enough to criticize, but monolithic enough to praise?
I explained this to a 12 year old girl and she seemed to think it was a completely phony form of argumentation. A 12 year old couldn't be smarter than you, could she?
Really, I'm VERY curious about your take on this matter.
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Of course Meghan's not a genius
[Read the article: Meghan McCain is, like, totally a genius]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She hasn't read Teh Feminist Theory, so how can she be brilliant like us?
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Why...
[Read the article: Can you hide slutty eyes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...are Broadsheet contributors so moronic?
Seriously. Why are they? Why are they self-obsessed and incapable of thinking 30 seconds beyond their own self-obsessive selves?
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"Considering how many women get their drinks drugged"
[Read the article: The evil future is now: Semen detection kits]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, "considering how many":
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=436592&in_page_id=1770
If you slam eleven tequilas in a row, chances are that one of them could've been drugged. Statistically-speaking.
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I'm kind of curious...
[Read the article: Women's studies, still alive and fist-shaking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We're often told what a sexist "old boy's club" academia has been (and still is?). But from the early 70's until the mid-80s, something like a couple HUNDRED Women's Studies departments opened-up all throughout the sexist "old boy's club" of academia which, supposedly, is ever so hostile to women and constantly finding ways to oppress them.
That "old boy's club" must've been taking a good, long nap while all of those new WS departments were opening-up shop so quickly, eh? You'd imagine that Teh Oppressive Patriarchy would've put-up stiffer resistance.
Oh, and when is the Teh Oppressive Patriarchy going to stick the Broadsheet contributors into a concentration camp? You'd imagine they would have done that by now...
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Anyone noticed...
[Read the article: Women's studies, still alive and fist-shaking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...that most of the defenses of Women's Studies have sofar boiled-down to "You're just a stupid, whiny MALE, unaware of his privileges! What do you know!?!"
Women's Studies Debate Skillz 101 must be a fine course indeedy.
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@Greeneyedkzin
[Read the article: Women's studies, still alive and fist-shaking]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Golly, and apparently I'm privileged enough to be addressed by the Queen Amazon herself today as well.
Dear, let me explain something: I can be the most "privileged" person in the world and you can be the must underprivileged, pathetic person to ever grovel across the face of the planet, and yet I can be still right about a particular point and you can still be wrong. It's not the all-purpose trump-card you seem to think it is.
You're probably just punchy from lack of sleep or something.
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I love how...
[Read the article: Danica Patrick makes sports history]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...car racing is to be derided in Salon circles as the sport of beer-swilling redneck hicks like the loathed "NASCAR dad" demographic-- but when Danica Patrick wins something, oh now car racing has a great deal of nobility to it all of a sudden.
Kind of like how golf was a laughable waste of time which we made fun of until Michelle Wie came-along with her mediocre performance and managed to avoid coming-in dead last in a few major tournaments, thus transforming golf into a Very Important Sport.
Kind of like how Broadsheet feminists hate large corporations until a female CEO comes along. They hate the military until a female general comes along. They hate religion until a female bishop comes along. The logic around here doesn't go beyond looking at the crotch, does it?
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@LeCastor
[Read the article: Danica Patrick makes sports history]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wait, you mean how feminists call sexist entities sexist... until they're not sexist anymore?
Nope. Talkin' 'bout how feminists applaud women for engaging in behavior that they normally deride when it comes from men.
Like I said: The logic never goes beyond looking at the crotch. Feel free to twist that around until it feels palatable to you.
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@LeCastor
[Read the article: Danica Patrick makes sports history]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not a spokesperson for the monolithic feminist establishment
Oh riiiiiight, I forgot how feminism isn't monolithic enough to be criticized. But oddly enough, feminism IS monolithic enough to be praised.
With your big, huge brain maybe you can explain how that works exactly? How "feminism isn't a monolith" when someone tries to criticize it, yet feminism IS monolithic enough for someone to praise it?
I mean, isn't that-- what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yes-- IDIOTIC?
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Even when Harding has sympathy for a man...
[Read the article: Old, fat, male ... and bulimic?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...she manages to come-off as mocking him.
Gee, wonder why that is? Must be one o' them unsolvable mysteries. Like the mystery of why feminists are stereotyped as hating men.
Hey, has anyone ever been accused of not being a "real feminist" because they hated men too much? Just curious.
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Hah, excellent.
[Read the article: Old, fat, male ... and bulimic?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right, the readers are ganging-up you. Poor, poor Kate.
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Hi James!
[Read the article: Strangers on a train ... under arrest?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you or Manjoo planning to ever make a Broadsheet post asking when the other Broadsheet contributors-- not to mention the ladies on the Broadsheet blogroll-- are planning to make-good on their "equality" agitation by trying to sign-up for Selective Service?
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OMG! Patriarchy!
[Read the article: Life expectancy drops for some American women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Women should never be allowed to die of old age!
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By the way--
[Read the article: Life expectancy drops for some American women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Broadsheet is a "women's blog" wherein the focus must always be on "women's issues", and broaching the topic of men is deemed a changing of the subject-- why is it nonetheless ok to bring-up men's stuff in the context of mocking it? Isn't that changing the subject?
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"I don't know about you, but if I were trying to decide this case..."
[Read the article: I now call to the witness stand ... your jeans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"..., I might rely pretty heavily on the woman's testimony."
Yeah and we all know how completely free of bias you are, what with your reaction to the evidence presented against the Duke Lacrosse team.