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Okay. I need to start to write another essay, I want this over and done with since I can do it quite fast. But which frigging subject? Topic is 'feminism still relevant in todays society?' and the issues I think about are basically: * Men and masculinity. Examining the quite simplified idea about masculinity, using the book and example ' with a clear sense of style' by mendel enk. Got the arguments quite clear, written about it before. Can use that. * BDSM and feminism. Basically, how sexpositive feminism is not antifeminist and very well needed in trying to create including Foucault, Califia, and some other. * Sexwork and feminism. The same as above...
Or something else? (I really want to do all my Califia reading and start to dig into that part, on the other hand, there is already a subject that I know fairly well...)
Edited Mon 16 Feb 09, 12:26 PM by Hedwig
| 16 Feb 09, 12:35 PM LittleMissEvil 4 yrs |
i would go for eaither BDSM & femanism or sex work and femanism. I think both give interesting ideas. Especialy if you look at the whole D/s dynamic and where the real power lays within it. But i would be interested in haveing a read of it when your done  Some people say i am evil, i have no idea why they think that. | |||
| 16 Feb 09, 1:17 PM DaddysTouch UK(RG), 3 yrs |
Might want to take a look at this for some inspiration. Love, love is a verb | |||
| 16 Feb 09, 1:22 PM mq1965 UK(DA), 8 yrs |
No idea if this will be helpful to you, but my immediate response to that would be something along the lines of the following. While there may be generalisations about men and women that hold true on average, 'men' and 'women' are groups that are far too big for such generalisations to be useful - there are too many exceptions to all the generalisations. In an increasingly fragmented multi-cultural society it is no longer useful to look at male and female roles, and to advance the interests of both we need to focus more on allowing individual equality and unique individuality. And this website, and BDSM in general, with the endless debates about the roles of Doms, subs and switches, and of men and women - and indeed on how difficult it can be to even define 'men and 'women' - is a microcosm of all those arguments in society and a good example of why it is pointless to try and work with defined ideas of what groups of people should be like and how they behave.
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| 16 Feb 09, 1:59 PM verte UK(E), 8 yrs |
But people still make those generalisations and impose gender roles onto both men and women. This is why feminism is relevant. "Well-behaved women rarely make history" | |||
| 16 Feb 09, 2:14 PM robotsquid UK(B), 3 yrs  |
it is, but as with racism, i think a lot of the battles have already been won. older generations will never change but i'd like to think that children today will be growing up believing in gender equality. http://www.geocities.com/ALT_stream <= NEW SHOW 30/01/09! | |||
| 16 Feb 09, 2:19 PM mq1965 UK(DA), 8 yrs |
I guess this comes down to definitions, but the key phrase there is "impose gender roles onto both men and women". That is where I am not so sure that looking at something from a feminist perspective, as opposed to an individualist perspective is helpful. The question becomes very complicated in today's society, but to simplify it consider it in the perspective of a simplified view of 1950's society - man as breadwinner, woman as housewife/mother. The traditional view is that this society represses women, but that view in itself contains a certain degree of sexist assumption, in that it assumes that people's success is measured in terms of masculine priorities - career status, earning power etc. If you measure success by happiness, contentment or bringing up children who are a credit to you, then some women may be more successful in that system. And some men, who don't desire career or status, but want to be at home with their children, are more repressed by the roles imposed on them than some women, who enjoy being housewives and mothers. I will certainly accept that on average more women were unhappy under that system than men, and that it was probably easier for men to break free of their assigned roles than women, but nonetheless I don't think the problems were by any means exclusively women's problems. The same applies to almost any area that you care to look at today. Which is where I have a difficulty with viewing things as feminist issues. They are issues that affect people. More of those people may be women than men, but they don't affect all women, and they do affect some men. And I think that certainly on some issues, and probably on all, there is a danger that by viewing things through gender tinted spectacles you are in danger of not being able to see the root cause of the problem, and hence to solve it. | |||
| 16 Feb 09, 2:54 PM newfavourite UK(S), 4 yrs |
I'd be most interested to read about sexwork and feminism,
as I think it is a very under-researched subject, particularly from a perspective other than blanket anti-sex work. Good luck! My essay would be very short on any of the topics you mention. Is feminism still relevant? Yes!
'Pervert'? She can't even spell it! | |||
| 16 Feb 09, 11:08 PM newfavourite UK(S), 4 yrs |
I'd say everyone has 'gender tinted spectacles'. The concept that some of us are capable of 'Gender neutrality' is in itself a problem. 'Pervert'? She can't even spell it! Edited 16 Feb 09, 11:13 PM by newfavourite | |||
| 17 Feb 09, 4:13 PM skyfox UK(EH), 5 yrs  |
Regarding Califia, (one of my favs, too) perhaps a short look at the historical politics of SM? (Since there hasn't been that much it'll be a short paper.) Or anything having to do with the media's approach to any of your above mentioned topics. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. | |||
| 19 Feb 09, 5:43 PM Hedwig UK(E), 4 yrs |
I prefer this moreinches.wordpress.com |
