Kate,
This has often raised some ire around here. All I can say is I understand
where she is coming from. It's nothing really to do with "feminists" - I
think that she doesn't like any kind of labels and the borderlines and
polarizing that seem to inevitably come with them. I cringe at
categorizations, too, because it seems that sometimes even the most
innocuous can provoke pigeonholing and stereotyping.
Kakki
> Joni:
> "I am absolutely not a feminist. I prefer the company of men to women,
> always have. And I'm constantly lumped in with women with whom I don't
> belong."
>
> Sigh. Damn her hide anyway.
> Obviously she doesn't know what the dictionary definition of a
> "feminist" is. And for a woman of her intelligence, I am surprised, I
> admit it! And frankly, being a feminist, or not, has dick-all to do with
> whether you prefer the company of men over the company of women.
>
> Now if Joni were to say she believed women were inferior to men, or that
> she did not believe they deserved social and economic equality, okay,
> I'd agree with her when she says she isn't a feminist. But that girl's a
> feminist through and through, deny it all she will. She's put more than
> one chauvinistic humanoid in his place, I'll wager, and we all know Joni
> doesn't believe that she's inferior to anyone in any way because she's
> female and he's male. Nope. Feminist.
>
> I think what she's getting at is that she does not personally have any
> desire to wage war on men. It's unfortunate that feminism has this idea
> attached to it. Maybe it was necessary at one time -- the militant
> aspect, the anger -- but it is certainly not what equality is all about,
> is it?
>
> Kate du Nord
