After this first post that shows a Green Blogger really understanding why some women are alienated from feminism, here's another post by a Green Blogger, Olaf at Prairie Wrangler, underscoring why SOW is irrelevant. He says it so well.
On the "5 Things" Feminist Meme that is going around he writes:
Left wing bloggers, for the most part, make thoughtful comments about 5 things that have changed since 1960's and 1970's era feminism, and have vastly promoted gender equality in the process. (...)For their part, right wing bloggers almost invariably list 5 ways in which feminism has gone off course in the past 10-15 years.
I would say feminism went off course about 20-25 years ago, but who's counting?
He writes:
The theme, initiated by the Progressive Bloggers, is in an attempt to show the relevance of the Status of Women Canada. However, in order to show the importance and relevance of this program, one cannot reasonably cite progress made by feminists 40 or 30 or even 10 years ago, for these advances are not at issue, and are fortunately irreversible.
It's like I was saying in my other post. Most so-con women are not on the warpath to destroy every gain made by women in the last 50 years.
What we are against is that relativistic, socialist, post-modern kind of agenda that seeks to destroy the notion of gender and the complementarity of the sexes, while eliminating any kind of Judeo-Christian based from the culture. Basic institutions like marriage, the family, church: they're all targets for feminism.
Feminism as it is preached in the feminist culture is a sick culture. Does anyone really believe there should be no genders? Does anyone REALLY act like there should be no "absolute claims to truth"-- including science (some feminists make that claim!). Does anyone really want feminism to become the state ideology through an auditor-general that would evaluate all government laws, policy and regulations based on feminist tenets (SOW is pushing for this!!!).
I say no.
Feminism has gone batty.
Olaf also has another very valuable point:
I believe that radical feminism today follows the same principles of exclusion and discrimination that women fought so hard 30 years ago to rectify. For many, it is an attempt to blame society or the media or men generally for certain hardships that befall women, as if similar hardships were not faced by men. To focus merely on the plight of women in society brings with it a false polarization which is, in my mind, degenerative to social discourse.
Bang on.
Go over there and give that man some traffic
UPDATE: D'OH!
I just noticed his BLOGGING TORIES Blogroll, too. Maybe not as Green as some Green Bloggers.
But he still gets it!
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