Female Porn Stars Have Higher Self Esteem

[beatitude]

Are radical feminists allowed to be Catholic?   :pinch:

 

I don't usually wait to be 'allowed' to do stuff before I do it...

 

I was drawn to radical feminist thought by three things: its emphasis on misogyny as the basic template for other forms of oppression; its recognition that oppression is structural, and it's not enough to campaign for equality within a fundamentally oppressive structure; and its focus on women's lived experience as opposed to academic theory. So much academic feminism is inaccessible to women without a certain type of education and meaningless to women without a certain type of background. There are fewer gatekeepers in radical feminism, and for this reason I have found my Catholic self to be (mostly) accepted and welcome in these communities (although many of the women there would challenge my use of the term radical feminist for myself, whilst making it clear that they're happy to work alongside me).

[theculturewarrior]

I have very high self-esteem, maybe because I have not yet realized that I am a female porn star.  It's logical.

Edited November 29, 2012 by theculturewarrior

[Jesus_lol]

Did Ed just disappear? I was looking forward to reading his responses, get a head start on the saturday morning cartoons.

[4588686]

I don't usually wait to be 'allowed' to do stuff before I do it...

 

I was drawn to radical feminist thought by three things: its emphasis on misogyny as the basic template for other forms of oppression; its recognition that oppression is structural, and it's not enough to campaign for equality within a fundamentally oppressive structure; and its focus on women's lived experience as opposed to academic theory. So much academic feminism is inaccessible to women without a certain type of education and meaningless to women without a certain type of background. There are fewer gatekeepers in radical feminism, and for this reason I have found my Catholic self to be (mostly) accepted and welcome in these communities (although many of the women there would challenge my use of the term radical feminist for myself, whilst making it clear that they're happy to work alongside me).

 

That's really my question.  Obviously you can ascribe any title to yourself that you wish.  Some people even ascribe for themselves an ideology where capitalism and anarchism are somehow synergistic.  BAZINGA!  Anyway, my real question was how other self-identified radical feminists took to you identifying yourself with them while simultaneously adhering to and promoting an institution that has been so active in fighting against feminism and is so sexist in its everyday practice.  It seems from your response that most of them take exception to the labeling.  I guess my question is how you can do that when you do recognize the structural features to oppression and must admit the great amount that traditional and patriarchal religions play in facilitating and promoting that structure in the first place.  

[Winchester]

Did Ed just disappear? I was looking forward to reading his responses, get a head start on the saturday morning cartoons.

 

No. That stuff doesn't just disappear. It has to run through primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment.

[beatitude]

That's really my question.  Obviously you can ascribe any title to yourself that you wish.  Some people even ascribe for themselves an ideology where capitalism and anarchism are somehow synergistic.  BAZINGA!  Anyway, my real question was how other self-identified radical feminists took to you identifying yourself with them while simultaneously adhering to and promoting an institution that has been so active in fighting against feminism and is so sexist in its everyday practice.  It seems from your response that most of them take exception to the labeling.  I guess my question is how you can do that when you do recognize the structural features to oppression and must admit the great amount that traditional and patriarchal religions play in facilitating and promoting that structure in the first place.  

This is a long story. I'll PM you.