Re:Rossini’s sins
by barrkel on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:34AM
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The opinion pieces are uncritically conservative. That's not a dealbreaker, mind. Personally, I find both left-wing and right-wing media tedious to read when they display their biases; it's normally when they assert something baldly without considering obvious counter-examples. I read both sides to try and avoid the groupthink.
Our first question on reading that was: is there anything that feminism cannot spoil?
The answer to that query, we are confident, is “No, it ruins everything it touches.”
I don't think feminism has ruined everything it touches; and I don't think feminist critiques of socially and economically embedded power structures are all invalid. There really is something there, and it should be challenged. But criticism of the hierarchy of victimhood is also legitimate (https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2017/11/devouring-its-ow... ); it's certainly gone too far.
The way I see it, criticisms are used as a way to power; the criticisms have effectiveness because of the truth of their claims, but people then pick up the criticisms and use them as clubs to bludgeon their way towards the top of the heap. The heap, and its hierarchy, never goes away.
For example: https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2017/11/scouts-dishonor :
Our first question on reading that was: is there anything that feminism cannot spoil?
The answer to that query, we are confident, is “No, it ruins everything it touches.”
I don't think feminism has ruined everything it touches; and I don't think feminist critiques of socially and economically embedded power structures are all invalid. There really is something there, and it should be challenged. But criticism of the hierarchy of victimhood is also legitimate (https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2017/11/devouring-its-ow... ); it's certainly gone too far.
The way I see it, criticisms are used as a way to power; the criticisms have effectiveness because of the truth of their claims, but people then pick up the criticisms and use them as clubs to bludgeon their way towards the top of the heap. The heap, and its hierarchy, never goes away.