I'm just catching up with this debate and it's already quite
complicated. Because of that, I can't pretend to address it directly. I
think that most of this is beyond sorting out, and I think at this point
the discussion isn't about Sondheim's Gender and Me post or even about
Alan Sondheim as
Feminism is not the same as women, maybe not about most of
them either. It addresses a fairly small set of some women's
interests, and some of those women extrapolate their interests to
women in general. And a small number of men use this as a
means to presume to know what women are and, to be
Let's try this another way.
Alan, you forwarded a piece called Gender and You to an
overwhelmingly male list. If you're that interested in gender, maybe
you'd familiarise yourself with a few decades of feminist philosophy
and criticism (empirically the largest body of work on gender issues)
and
I'm not sure how much longer nettime will let me go on, but I feel
again I have to respond; now I'm an Orientalist as well as sexist.
This is one of the ugliest exchanges I've had - maybe the ugliest -
but I can't let it go.
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Kali Tal wrote:
I do find the Nikuko pieces