{"id":358,"date":"2003-09-05T07:20:26","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/09\/05\/further-thought-on-that-wendy-mcelroy-column\/"},"modified":"2003-09-05T07:20:26","modified_gmt":"2003-09-05T15:20:26","slug":"further-thought-on-that-wendy-mcelroy-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Further thought on that Wendy McElroy column"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sara at Diotima<\/a>, who says I’m her favorite lefty blogger (aw, shucks!<\/em>), has a good point about the Wendy McElroy FoxNews column<\/a> I blogged about yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The McElroy column, as you may recall, is premised on the idea that Christian feminism is widely rejected by mainstream feminism (or is about to be – McElroy vacillates on if Christian feminism is a new thing or not). Of course, Christian feminism – like Jewish feminism – has been broadly accepted within feminism for decades. I thought this was a rather staggering error from someone who writes about feminism for a living. But Sara points out that McElroy’s argument actually makes sense, if we assume that by “Christian” McElroy meant “conservative evangelicals”:<\/p>\n

But when I first read this, I was struck more by the fact that for McElroy, apparently all Christians are conservative evangelicals. Seen this way, McElroy’s point isn’t so much that “PC feminists” refuse to allow that Christians<\/em> can be feminists, but that familiar old argument that they won’t let conservatives<\/em> be feminists.<\/div>\n

Sara’s reading is probably correct – but if so, it’s rather ironic. McElroy, who constantly chastises feminists for our allegedly narrow conception of “feminism,” seems – at least in this column – to have an incredibly narrow conception of who can be called a “Christian.”.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sara at Diotima, who says I’m her favorite lefty blogger (aw, shucks!), has a good point about the Wendy McElroy FoxNews column I blogged about yesterday. The McElroy column, as you may recall, is premised on the idea that Christian … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-feminists-and-their-pals","category-wendy-mcelroy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}