Re:What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?
by staticautomatic on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @02:27PM
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I don't necessarily agree that it should be automatically treated with suspicion, but it does always warrant further inspection. One of the biggest problems with discussions about contemporary feminism is that it's often unclear who is being talked about when one talks about "feminists." Accordingly, vague invocations of "feminists" or "feminism" may not be deliberate but instead suffer merely from erroneously insufficient specificity.
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Re:What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?
by rosser on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @02:30PM
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> ...but it does always warrant further inspection.
That's what I mean by suspicion: scrutiny, not dismissal. What, e.g., are the narratives in play, that enable someone to speak that casually, yet confidently, about a thing they're prima facie demonstrating a flawed understanding of?
Re:What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?
by beat on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:11PM
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Alternately, the "erroneously insufficient specificity" might be quite deliberate, if not explicitly considered. Blanket attacks on "feminists" often have origins other than mere academic inquiry.