I find a lot of feminism really offensive. Sort of "I'm so empowered that I need to use words like 'wi'myn' and 'herstory' instead of the regular ones everyone else uses" - those types of loonies get on my nerves. It's like, I really really don't like a lot of these "women in sciences" kinds of conferences/mentoring schemes/training courses, as they imply women need some kind of special treatment/bribery/mothering in order to get anywhere in life. Giving women that kind of idea is as much of a problem as any other source of "oppression" in many ways.
The best kind of feminism, in my opinion, is just to get on with one's life and have a good time, whilst co-incidentally being female. I am a scientist first and a woman second, as far as careers and so on go.
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Date: 2005-11-17 05:26 pm (UTC)I find a lot of feminism really offensive. Sort of "I'm so empowered that I need to use words like 'wi'myn' and 'herstory' instead of the regular ones everyone else uses" - those types of loonies get on my nerves. It's like, I really really don't like a lot of these "women in sciences" kinds of conferences/mentoring schemes/training courses, as they imply women need some kind of special treatment/bribery/mothering in order to get anywhere in life. Giving women that kind of idea is as much of a problem as any other source of "oppression" in many ways.
The best kind of feminism, in my opinion, is just to get on with one's life and have a good time, whilst co-incidentally being female. I am a scientist first and a woman second, as far as careers and so on go.