{"id":3223,"date":"2007-03-01T04:58:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T11:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/01\/us-does-not-equal-the-world\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T04:58:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T11:58:27","slug":"us-does-not-equal-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3223","title":{"rendered":"US does not equal the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t agree with much that Jessica Valenti wrote<\/a> in her argument about the gap between older feminists and younger feminists (something that I’ve never experienced myself; I’ve had nothing but support and genoristy from older feminists). I felt that she treated older feminists as a homogenous group, as if all older feminists should take responsibility for the few who behaved rudely towards younger women. It’s exactly the same kind of thinking that leads some older feminists to be dismissive of younger women. Yes it’s wrong if an older woman takes an inane ignorant comment as a symbol of ‘young people today’. But it’s just as wrong for Jessica to take the comments of a few older women as standing for a generation of activists.<\/p>\n

That’s not what I want to write about. I’ll acknowledge that I’ve had a bad day<\/a>, but what Jessica wrote at the end of her piece made me really angry:<\/p>\n

But the public face of feminism is institutional\u2014Ms. Magazine, Feminist Majority Foundation, NOW\u2014they\u2019re what the world thinks of when they think of feminism. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As someone from the world, I have to tell her she’s wrong. Maybe Americans think of Ms. Magazine, Feminist Majority Foundation and NOW when they think of feminism. Although I would hope that women have more specific experiences of feminism, they think of the battered women’s centre their friend went to, their union’s women structure, their college women’s facilities, the local welfare rights organisation, or the rape crisis line they called.<\/p>\n

Outside your country? Most of us don’t even know what the Feminist Majority Foundation is, nor do we care. We actually have feminism out here too. Our organisations, our magazines, the way we organise, and the issues that are most important to us, they’re not exactly the same as it is in the US. We don’t think of US institutions when we think of feminism, we think of what’s happened locally, the battles we’ve fought and won, and the battles we’ve fought and lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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