Here's an excellent link to a blogged essay by a feminist attorney,
pondering the phenomenon of virtual lawyers in drag:
http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=942
It was written last month, so I think it's very useful for getting
another sense of what it's like for women to inhabit worlds in
In a message dated 10/9/06 1:44:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Condemn US and Canadian foreign policy for encouraging North Korea.
North Koreaâs nuclear test did not surprise anyone who has
actually been listening to the statements of the Democratic
Peopleâs Republic of Korea (DPRK).
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
What about Human Theory?
At one moment I want to just say, lets get over it, were all just
human. But I know that when push comes to shove, especially in the
digital world I work and live in, sexism does exist. I encounter it
almost daily, people questioning my skills in the computer world
It was written last month, so I think it's very useful for getting
another sense of what it's like for women to inhabit worlds in which
they feel displaced by men who pose as women...
ok except it's more or less a posture as old as art itself in so many
culture, academia rules on it (no need
There is a nettime history of Alan Sondheim and Kali Tal outside
of this particular discussion; there is an Internet outside of
nettime where those names have a history, and a world outside
you are an obscurantizlt, worst you trust to some realised fiction around,
who believe you ? in
Wouldn't this issue of feminism be subsumed under a broader heading of human
rights?The question probably exposes my ignorance. But if each group
takes an ethno centric viewpoint without 'concern for the other' it seems that
nonproductive conflict occurs automatically. As groups act to
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
Okay, I'll chime in too.
So maybe I'm a bit younger (34) and not exposed to/informed on nearly enough
feminist theory. But here's my perspective. For my entire professional
career most of my bosses and clients have been women. My business partner
(my wife) is a woman. When I was in college,
Danny Butt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nettime Gender and You
brian whitener [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wait, was that about sondheim?
leon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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