{"id":5294,"date":"2008-11-04T05:24:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T12:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2008-11-04T05:24:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T12:44:18","slug":"can-i-be-a-feminist-and-a-bottom-in-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5294","title":{"rendered":""Can I be a feminist and a bottom in bed?""},"content":{"rendered":"

I liked this post by Daisy Bond at Revolutionary Act<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One unfortunate consequence of feminism\u2019s emphasis on the personal as political is that it becomes too easy to discriminate against people for not being \u201cfeminist enough.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the opposite of what \u201cthe personal is political\u201d is supposed to mean. \u201cThe personal is political\u201d is not an excuse to bash other women or take away someone\u2019s feminist membership card. It\u2019s the idea that our ostensibly \u201cpersonal\u201d problems \u2014 like rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment \u2014 are actually part of large-scale systems of oppression. Many personal hardships are the result of political injustices.<\/p>\n

Now, of course individuals should be held accountable for their own unfair or bigoted actions. But wearing lipstick \u2014 for example \u2014 is not an act of bigotry, even though it\u2019s caused by a bigoted system. The fact that women wear lipstick is a function of the gender system, but the fact that women wear lipstick doesn\u2019t itself cause sexism. We could have an egalitarian world with lipstick; we couldn\u2019t have an egalitarian world with a wage gap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In virtually all political movements, there’s a tendency for people to take their focus off of systematic change and to look instead at policing personal purity. It’s really unfortunate that in feminism, this tendency has also caused “the personal is political” — which is a nutshell of an extremely valuable analysis — to be warped and misunderstood in the way Daisy describes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I liked this post by Daisy Bond at Revolutionary Act: One unfortunate consequence of feminism\u2019s emphasis on the personal as political is that it becomes too easy to discriminate against people for not being \u201cfeminist enough.\u201d This is the opposite … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294","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=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}