[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- stephiepenguin: sometimes i love broken things (feminism)
- Hey so, I totally love being a feminist, right? I am all about equity and awesomeness, and including all women (trans women and cis women)* in a world where everyone is super awesome and has great opportunities and stuff.
So it makes me very sad when I realise that not all feminists feel this way! And it makes me sad when I realise not all women want to be feminists, but I understand it because feminism as a thing has let a lot of women down, especially if they are not privileged women of a certain background (in many instances white and cis and middle-class and preferably Western).
[See article for links. --L.]
- Anti-justice? Wow.
- I'm guessing that Beck would argue that he's not opposing justice per se, only "social justice" — which he sees as a "code word" for Nazicommunism or something. But this is nonsense. Not just the slander that every Christian from the original disciples on down is a Nazicommunist, but the very idea that it's possible to speak of "justice" as distinct from "social justice."
Justice is, by definition, social. Justice, by definition, is something that exists only between and among individuals and groups of individuals and groups of groups. One might argue that "social justice" is redundant, but one cannot oppose "social justice" without opposing justice itself. [...]
That trailblazers of wingnuttery like Glenn Beck would explicitly condemn justice itself shouldn't be surprising. You'll recall that just a few months ago, Beck and his allies (including most of the Republican caucus in Congress) were loudly railing against a related prerequisite virtue, empathy.
Yes, that's right, they said empathy was bad.
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