10/2/07

Feminism

The parts of feminism that focus on understanding and emancipation constitute good initiatives. These should challenge the status quo, question the so-called ism-ism, the haves and have-nots dichotomy, legal legitimacy etc. And, there are efforts to push these applications beyond gender issues, into other arena such as ethnicity, religion, age, etc. They can bring about good changes, if applications were proper. Nevertheless, they tend to ontologicalize social life and morality, intolerable of "lonely-planet" life-style, essentialism, overemphasize on discourses, overly protective, fail to be critical of those situations where they lose supports, fail to understand different versions of libertarianism and pragmatism, and properly result-oriented. These pose qestions like "is feminine libertarianism and pragmatism possible?", "If possible, what are they?", "Can feminine hermeneutics be less agressive and emotional?"

3 comments:

ETTan said...

Due to gender differences, feminism should focus more on pragmatic fairness than on metaphysical equality. Legal equality and even preferences are already there. Self-criticism rather than self-righteousness is necessary to gain more votes.

ETTan said...

The rise of anti-cleftism and more liberal thoughts have proven the self-adjusting nature of feminism. Still, there are risks of unitarianism to guard against.

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