{"id":1772,"date":"2005-11-25T20:11:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T19:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1772.html"},"modified":"2014-01-18T21:01:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T20:01:39","slug":"degrees-of-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2005\/11\/25\/degrees-of-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Degrees of feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently reading a conversation<\/a> online between some very committed Democrats and some very committed Republicans. Like many of the readers, I was floored when one of the Republican women called one of the Democrat women an “overemotional, angry, thick-skulled feminist”.<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/em> This educated, enfranchised and employed woman was using feminist<\/em> as an insult. How does this creature think she got where she is today, if not through the efforts of overemotional, angry, thick-skulled feminists1<\/sup> like Abigail Adams, Emily Parkhurst, Susan B. Anthony and Eleanor Roosevelt?<\/p>\n

I got to feel smugly superior about my comparative enlightenment for exactly one day. Then I found this basket in the ladies’ room of the Capita conference centre, and it made me squirm.<\/p>\n

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It took me a while to realise why it got at me. It’s not the fact that sanitary products are set out for women to use – though the dynamic of being given them as opposed to buying them one’s self (even from a vending machine) is already a move from the intense privacy with which we deal with these matters.<\/p>\n

It’s the fact that they are offered with corporate compliments<\/em>. If they just left them out for customers to filch, I think I’d be a little easier about it. The implicit attention to menstruation that the sign conveys is, well, embarrassing. (And this blog entry is an attempt to get over that embarassment.)<\/p>\n

I hope Fiona is that bit more relaxed about these things when she grows up.<\/p>\n

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  1. Note that “feminist” in this context means one who believes that women should have equal rights to men. The use of “feminist” to mean “man hating freak” is a semantic hijacking.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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