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Dec. 7th, 2006 05:47 pmI know you're all probably sick of my oral diarrhea.
But I like to write this stuff so, you all get to read it... or skim over it if you don't feel like reading it.
A few things have been bothering me a for the past few days, after a discussion with a good friend of mine, where he tried to convince me that feminism, by focusing on women only, they are only creating more gender segregation and that not only women are oppressed by society and that humanism is a much better term to use in the idealogical battle against oppression of all kind.
Many things about that idea bother me; my biggest bother is the thought that Feminism is the cause of gender segregation and not, ya know, the Judeo-Patriarchal society we currently live in, where the basic idea, one of the first things an Orthodox man says when he wakes up in the morning ברוך אתה אדוני, אלוהינו מלך העולם, שלא עשני אישה (Blessed are You, Adonai, Our God, King of the Universe, Who Did Not Make Me a Woman). And despite the leftist bubble in which I and many of my friends surround ourselves in; it is the people who wake up at dawn and say that, that currently control the institute of marriage and citizenship in Israel.
( Cut in case of triggers to do with domestic and general violence )
Humanism is not an exchange for Feminism, because Humanism is a philosophy to do with rationalism, self-determinism and the affirmation of human-dignity (all very, IMO, general and as I've said, philosophical). Whereas feminism today is, again in my own experience and opinion, more to do with activism and actual action towards bettering the rights of those oppressed in the Patriarchy and to me that means everyone.
I think that by attempting to equalize the footing on which (speaking specifically) women and men stand is a mistake since at the moment, women aren't on equal footing to men and until they are it is going to be “Feminism” and not “Mutualism”, “Equalism” or any other kind of “-ism”.
But I like to write this stuff so, you all get to read it... or skim over it if you don't feel like reading it.
A few things have been bothering me a for the past few days, after a discussion with a good friend of mine, where he tried to convince me that feminism, by focusing on women only, they are only creating more gender segregation and that not only women are oppressed by society and that humanism is a much better term to use in the idealogical battle against oppression of all kind.
Many things about that idea bother me; my biggest bother is the thought that Feminism is the cause of gender segregation and not, ya know, the Judeo-Patriarchal society we currently live in, where the basic idea, one of the first things an Orthodox man says when he wakes up in the morning ברוך אתה אדוני, אלוהינו מלך העולם, שלא עשני אישה (Blessed are You, Adonai, Our God, King of the Universe, Who Did Not Make Me a Woman). And despite the leftist bubble in which I and many of my friends surround ourselves in; it is the people who wake up at dawn and say that, that currently control the institute of marriage and citizenship in Israel.
( Cut in case of triggers to do with domestic and general violence )
Humanism is not an exchange for Feminism, because Humanism is a philosophy to do with rationalism, self-determinism and the affirmation of human-dignity (all very, IMO, general and as I've said, philosophical). Whereas feminism today is, again in my own experience and opinion, more to do with activism and actual action towards bettering the rights of those oppressed in the Patriarchy and to me that means everyone.
I think that by attempting to equalize the footing on which (speaking specifically) women and men stand is a mistake since at the moment, women aren't on equal footing to men and until they are it is going to be “Feminism” and not “Mutualism”, “Equalism” or any other kind of “-ism”.
