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 For some reason this question ticks me off. You'd have to be a Martian not to know the answer. Gee, have feminist leaders always been honest and forthcoming bout sex? NO? Tell me it isn't so, mommy! What famous people whose names begin with A., C., and G. have dictated the reactionary feminist party line against pornography and sex work? Which fundamentalist religious leaders can you find them in bed with? Uh-oh, a pillow fight! A few well known and charismatic performers/authors/politicians/evangelists have come up with various rhetorical chestnuts to articulate why explicit sexual expression is so yucky and unfeminine and deep-down bad. Most of the "camps" that feel uncomfortable about erotica can't say exactly why they feel the way they do -- but either Steinem or Falwell are both equally happy to put words in the public's shameful mouths. There is also a lot left unsaid but assumed [by this camp]: that women like myself are deluded or intellectually incapacitated, or bought off with white slave money, unfit as mothers or intimate companions, not to mention wives. Of course we are assumed spiritually bankrupt, soulless. Brazen but empty fuck machines and apologists for The Dark Side. To be associated with us invites ridicule and outright discrimination. I can't imagine women's liberation without sexual liberation, gender liberation. And there have always been feminists who thought that way, just as there have always been feminists who abhorred the collaboration -- all the way back to Emma Goldman vs. Carrie Nation. Bourgeois feminism has been the wing of the feminist movement which captured the flag in this country, and their puritanical underpinnings are as fierce as their desire to break the glass ceiling. They have been such assholes about insisting that everyone share their values about sex, love, romance and propriety that they've essentially cut off their nose (the growth of feminism) to spite their face. Now you have legions of women who say they aren't feminists even though they "believe in equal rights." Why do they feel so alienated from traditional feminist leaders? Sex, class and race are the three little answers. 
- Sallie's response to Susie - Betty's response to Susie |
Question 1 Susie Bright Betty Dodson Nancy Friday Daphne Merkin Sallie Tisdale Question 2 Susie Bright Betty Dodson Nancy Friday Daphne Merkin Sallie Tisdale Question 3 Susie Bright Betty Dodson Nancy Friday Daphne Merkin Sallie Tisdale Question 4 Susie Bright Betty Dodson Nancy Friday Daphne Merkin Sallie Tisdale Question 5 Susie Bright Betty Dodson Nancy Friday Daphne Merkin Sallie Tisdale Question 6 Susie Bright Betty Dodson Nancy Friday Daphne Merkin Sallie Tisdale |
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