Comments on: blog against sexism day http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/03/08/blog-against-sexism-day/ let's activate something Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:25:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: jdaniel http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/03/08/blog-against-sexism-day/#comment-827 jdaniel Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:04:47 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/03/09/blog-against-sexism-day/#comment-827 unlike theatre, i'm sure we can all agree that competitive sports have certainly remained free of sexism. here's an interesting story from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7812261" rel="nofollow">NPR: men face ban from women's practice squads</a> unlike theatre, i’m sure we can all agree that competitive sports have certainly remained free of sexism. here’s an interesting story from NPR: men face ban from women’s practice squads

]]> By: Skylark http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/03/08/blog-against-sexism-day/#comment-823 Skylark Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:09:47 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/03/09/blog-against-sexism-day/#comment-823 Unfortunately, a lot of the labels people throw around have baggage and connotative power. "Feminist" is no exception. If the first thing that pops into a person's head when they hear "feminist" is raving bra-burning lesbians, much work has yet to be done. If it's hard to picture "feminist" coming across that way, try this: what do you think of when I say the word "vegan"? How do we fix this? Do we ditch labels and just talk about the issues, or do we try to clean up the labels? To an extent, I think we need labels because it helps reduce the overload on our brains. I simply don't know what a label-less world would look like. That doesn't mean it can't or won't exist... or that it would be better than the world we have now. "Surprisingly, all these stage women ever talk about is men." You should come to an all-female gathering. :-) We do talk about men, but not exclusively. I'm guessing male-female relationship issues are 40 percent of what I hear (straight) females talking about with other females. Unfortunately, a lot of the labels people throw around have baggage and connotative power. “Feminist” is no exception. If the first thing that pops into a person’s head when they hear “feminist” is raving bra-burning lesbians, much work has yet to be done.

If it’s hard to picture “feminist” coming across that way, try this: what do you think of when I say the word “vegan”?

How do we fix this? Do we ditch labels and just talk about the issues, or do we try to clean up the labels? To an extent, I think we need labels because it helps reduce the overload on our brains. I simply don’t know what a label-less world would look like. That doesn’t mean it can’t or won’t exist… or that it would be better than the world we have now.

“Surprisingly, all these stage women ever talk about is men.”

You should come to an all-female gathering. :-) We do talk about men, but not exclusively. I’m guessing male-female relationship issues are 40 percent of what I hear (straight) females talking about with other females.

]]> By: MeyerBros » The Sexism Post http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/03/08/blog-against-sexism-day/#comment-816 MeyerBros » The Sexism Post Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:43:23 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/03/09/blog-against-sexism-day/#comment-816 [...] I posted over at YAR before the bell tolled, but one of the main things I forgot to include was this: I hear over and over and over that the problem with Feminists is how much they hate men, and reverse discrimination and this and that, and beyond not buying that entire concept, it just isn’t my experience. Feminism, as I’ve always heard it articulated by feminists themselves, seems to me the most universally accepting and aware ideological system I’ve ever encountered. I was introduced to feminism in a memorable car ride by two women who put a lot of energy and compassion into correcting my somewhat naively sexist preconceptions of the world. Over the last year I’ve started reading a wide range of progressive blogs, and it is only the feminist bloggers who consistently [...] […] I posted over at YAR before the bell tolled, but one of the main things I forgot to include was this: I hear over and over and over that the problem with Feminists is how much they hate men, and reverse discrimination and this and that, and beyond not buying that entire concept, it just isn’t my experience. Feminism, as I’ve always heard it articulated by feminists themselves, seems to me the most universally accepting and aware ideological system I’ve ever encountered. I was introduced to feminism in a memorable car ride by two women who put a lot of energy and compassion into correcting my somewhat naively sexist preconceptions of the world. Over the last year I’ve started reading a wide range of progressive blogs, and it is only the feminist bloggers who consistently […]

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