Feminists

(in the secondary thread) has, I discovered while doing some searching (quite by accident, while searching on something else), been lying about me for years -- or at least was lying about me three years ago.

Anybody remember this thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=341&topic_id=13828&mesg_id=13828

Me, I'm just a gay and lesbian-hating thug. That explains a lot. Not about me, unfortunately for her and others.


I frankly don't realy know what this second wave / third wave business is. It's pretty much entirely US-centric and doesn't concern or interest me tremendously. Back during that second wave, late 60s onward in my own case, we were busy having as much sex as possible, as I recall, and making the political personal and all that jazz. This being what I meant by "I was there". Not "I was there at the beauty pageant in question which is not what the subject was", for fuck's sake.

I had it to my nose with being lectured by the younger ones quite some time ago. My generation is responsible for the ruination of the planet -- says the little twerp with 18 disposable-battery operated disposable electronic devices attached to their body and a bedroom full of the latest style in every item of clothing imaginable, while I've been reducing and reusing and recycling my ass off for 40 years. Mostly reducing. At the twerp's age, my clothing and furniture and dishes and most of everything else I needed came from second-hand and charity shops, and I hope to go to my grave never having owned a cell phone.

I am not my generation - but my generation is also not me, and I'm no more interested in great sweeping condemnations of my generation than the twerps are of theirs. I just happen to be a fair bit more above reproach personally than most of them are.

As far as this third-wave feminism, I stand by what I said -- there may be something that actually qualifies as feminism, but what gets thrown in my face, if I identify as a second-waver, is self-absorbed, anti-intellectual malarky. And if the equivalents were touted as third-wave African-American civil rights, or third-wave labour rights, Martin Luther King Jr and the Winnipeg General Strikers would be rolling over in their graves.

Maybe we can get us some third-wave socialism. I think it might be called "selling out". Which is what these uppity, obnoxious "third-wave feminists" are. What they ain't is feminists. For soooo many reasons.