Always with the questions
I’m wondering something.
You know “All Lives Matter”? That infuriating retort to Black Lives Matter? That maddeningly clueless, point-missing, pugnacious attempt to say shut up about racism?
Here’s a fresh new one just today, from the Elko Daily, by someone named Chuck Muth:
I know I shouldn’t write this – and I know I’m going to bring down the wrath of the Thought Police and the race-hustlers upon my head – but I’m sick and tired of this white-hating “black lives matter” crud and ain’t gonna take it anymore.
You know right where you are with that kind of thing, don’t you. You know to turn around and walk briskly away.
You know that “Black Lives Matter” is absolutely not saying that only black lives matter, or that other lives don’t matter – it’s just saying that black lives matter. You know that jumping in to shout that all lives matter is totally missing the point, and is shutting down the much-needed work of reminding complacent white people that racism hasn’t gone away.
By the same token, you know “I’m not a feminist, I’m a humanist”? That’s a trope too. It has the same flaw. Being a feminist is not opposed to being a humanist; one can (and should) be both. Feminism doesn’t mean taking away all the rights from men and giving them to women; it means ending the second-class status of women. It means treating women and men as equals. Treating the two as opposed is just an annoyingly uninformed way of denying that women are treated as subordinates. You already know that; it’s obvious, and it’s been much rehearsed over the past few years, including here.
So what I’ve been wondering is, what is it with a lot of progressive types who lose their shit when a feminist says no we should not stop talking about abortion as an issue of women’s rights? Why do those progressive types suddenly start saying it doesn’t erase women at all if we talk about people who need abortion rights as opposed to women who need abortion rights? Why do they suddenly forget all about shit like All Lives Matter and I’m not a feminist I’m a humanist when it comes to abortion?
I would love to know.
Well said.
Whenever they run into a conflict between feminism and genderism, they always pick the latter (or at the very least, they never pick the former). Of course, that’s not an answer, it’s just a restatement of the problem.
Dear progressives: Ask yourselves why you’re doing this. Seriously. I did, and it was eye-opening.
I literally do not understand this. Why would a not-woman need abortion rights? Because he/she was a woman when he/she became pregnant, but now is not? It seems to me that changing your gender while pregnant should simply not be allowed for all sorts of reasons.
As something of a philosophy nerd, I can’t help but create a dialectical triad:
Thesis — Patriarchy, misogyny etc.
Antithesis — Matriarchy, misandry
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Synthesis — Humanism, Egalitarianism etc.
Though with the behaviour you see on a daily basis from all genders it’s a hard thing to identify yourself as a Humanist (I don’t).
Justinr: if you read the article, you may notice that feminism is about equal rights. It’s not on the triad of bestowing all the goodies on one side versus the other. It comes from a different page in a different book. Ask yourself why that seems to be hard to grasp.
Seriously. justinr did you just not read the post at all? Or did you just blank out the part where I emphatically rejected your “dialectical triad”?
How much clearer can I make it? What part is it that you don’t understand or agree with?