Day: November 8, 2005

Chain Letter, Blogstyle!

tekanji

Kristy over at kblog tagged me for some meme. For the record, kristy, I hate you. ^_^

The instructions are as follows:

  1. Go into your archive.
  2. Find your 23rd post.
  3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
  5. Tag five other people to do the same.

… and my 23 post is really not that interesting. It was Shrub.com Article for August (which reminds me that I need to get the November article up), and the fifth sentence would be this:

I drive.

W00t.

So, uh, tagging…. Well, I guess I’ll go for Jenn, James, LegendaryMonkey, and also everyone’s favourite Shrub.com member who doesn’t blog over here, John! I know that’s only four, but sue me, I don’t really have all that many blog friends or even bloggers who read my blog x.x And no, y’all don’t have any obligation to actually do this if you don’t want to.

Interesting Take on Gender and Feminism

tekanji

I came across this untitled post in the feminist_rage LJ about anti-feminist misconceptions about feminism (the OP specifically addresses a white, heterosexual male that she is aquainted with for her rage). One commenter’s words just sort of jumped out at me as interesting [emphasis mine]:

“All feminists really want to do these days is make women into men.”

Oh, wow, that’s hilarious! They just don’t get it, do they? Feminism is about making it okay to NOT be a man. It’s about saying, ‘oh, you’re not a man? Well that’s okay, because you’re still a person.’

[From a post in feminist_rage, comment by nonahs]

I’ve looked at the gender democracy angle from several points of view, but this kind was fresh to me. I’m not sure it would be a useful discourse against an actual anti-feminist, but it’s something to think about at the very least.