DemonKia
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Joined: 10/13/2007 From: Chico, Nor-Cali Status: offline
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Wow, okay, despite that bit of thread-domming, I'm still gonna contribute something on-topic. I believe, as a feminist, that representing feminism as meaning 'women cannot like football' seriously misrepresents what feminism is about & it's history. It was Ms. Magazine that ran articles cheering on girls getting into playing football way back in the 1970's & '80's, when I was a kid & reading it regularly. The biggest problem I encounter around 'feminism' on a regular basis is this kinda strawman thinking that postulates that 'feminism' is something that goes against everything that mainstream feminism is & has done. & usually the assertion's based on (essentially) one data point, too. Well, this one feminist said this. Or that one group of feminists said this other thing. Um. Feminism is a movement composed of millions, probably more like billions of women (& men!) all over the globe, stretching back several hundred years under different names. Women's libbers. Suffragettes. There are locally originated women's movements in virtually every country on the planet. I'd love to have an intelligent conversation about feminism, but if the premise is a null construct, it makes it tough . . . . .. . & lastly but not lacking in any snark value, that whole line of "women can't like football" sounds just as much like something that would come out of some right-wing, conservative, macho, red-neck stereotype as outta some 'feminazi' stereotype . . . . . That women (& men) are constrained by gender roles is the very province of what feminism is about undoing . .. . . *seriously bewildered & shaking head*
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