Having read the post to which you linked which you say inspired this rant of your, I completely fail to see the connection.
1. The post itself never starts off saying the author is a "lesbian radical feminist separatist". Perhaps she is. I don't know her.
2. The author is not (I don't think) some pioneer of the lesbian feminist separatist movement, some great movement leader, or some influential policy maker. One suspects she is a little known blogger venting her frustration on her personal blog. Your willingness to dismiss feminism with glee based on one blogger's personal opinion of a television series with which you apparently disagree makes me wonder if you've ever seriously had a feminist sensibility in the first place.
3. I thought there were some good points brought up in her post. I don't think it is "crazy" or "off the wall" at all. It simply shows a different perspective on the series, one which clearly offends you in some deep and primal way. Opinions which do not match the mainstream are not necessarily "crazy" or those of a "nutjob" or even, possibly, wrong.
4. I fail to see why you have taken this so personally. Are you Joss Whedon or one of his writers? She was writing about him and the show he produced, not you.
5. If your post indicates this is what you think radical feminism is about, I strongly suggest you go educate yourself on what it is really about, because your idea of what it is about is pretty much completely wrong. But I can tell by your tone it is highly unlikely you will do so, since you have decided you already know what it is about. Just like all the people I know who "know" what Andrea Dworkin believed and wrote about without having ever once read one of her books, or listened to anything she said with any intention of doing anything but trying to point out all the ways in which she was wrong.
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Date: 2008-04-25 09:59 pm (UTC)1. The post itself never starts off saying the author is a "lesbian radical feminist separatist". Perhaps she is. I don't know her.
2. The author is not (I don't think) some pioneer of the lesbian feminist separatist movement, some great movement leader, or some influential policy maker. One suspects she is a little known blogger venting her frustration on her personal blog. Your willingness to dismiss feminism with glee based on one blogger's personal opinion of a television series with which you apparently disagree makes me wonder if you've ever seriously had a feminist sensibility in the first place.
3. I thought there were some good points brought up in her post. I don't think it is "crazy" or "off the wall" at all. It simply shows a different perspective on the series, one which clearly offends you in some deep and primal way. Opinions which do not match the mainstream are not necessarily "crazy" or those of a "nutjob" or even, possibly, wrong.
4. I fail to see why you have taken this so personally. Are you Joss Whedon or one of his writers? She was writing about him and the show he produced, not you.
5. If your post indicates this is what you think radical feminism is about, I strongly suggest you go educate yourself on what it is really about, because your idea of what it is about is pretty much completely wrong. But I can tell by your tone it is highly unlikely you will do so, since you have decided you already know what it is about. Just like all the people I know who "know" what Andrea Dworkin believed and wrote about without having ever once read one of her books, or listened to anything she said with any intention of doing anything but trying to point out all the ways in which she was wrong.