From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 11:05:49 MDT
On 26 Jul 2002 at 13:47, Walpurgis wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2002 at 16:48, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> > The last two of these, feminism and environmentalism, have been
> > converging to the degree that a common discipline, ecofeminism,
> > has been born. Although some affinities exist between these two
> > and the others, the only solid connection seems to be the choice by
> > some feminists of lesbianism on ideological grounds in spite of their
> > personal sexual preferences.
>
> There is more convergeance between these movements. Some feminists argue that
> feminism is a movement to end all forms of oppression. All other forms of
> oppression must end if women (and the rest of us) are to be free, because a
> woman™s gender identity intersects with all other forms of social identity.
> "Otherness" (that which is not a white, straight male) is conceived as the
> basis of oppression and as such "Others" must unite. The opposition between
> male and female is seen as the basic opposition that predates others
> (straight/bent, black/white etc).
>
I still hold the opinion that I voiced in my comparison of 'gender' and
'nature' ecofeminists; that dominance/submission paradigms are
imprinted during childrearing, and to eliminate them, we must discover
noncoercive ways of raising our young.
>
> Walpurgis
>
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