21st Century Feminists Suck

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was she serious or was it, y'know, an exercise in examining why language does what it does?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

She was serious - she said the term was offensive and discrimnatory and was manufactured to remind women of their place in a man's world. It really was beyond belief.

But the class was very interesting (once I got past the whole "men keep women down, therefore all men are evil" stuff that the prof. dished-out - she really disliked males). I was (and am) most taken with the ideas about how male and female writing differs, especially at younger ages (teenage girls talking in exclamations, teenage boys being aggressive in their writing, etc.) While I see much of this as being stereotypical, there is still some basic truth that males and females are taught to espress themseles differently. Anyway, it's made me more conscious of how I use language and what it says about me and other writers. (And I'm now investigating the gender-marked language of the post-operative transsexual community - really interesting, in my mind.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 04:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

teenage girls talking in exclamations!!!??

haha -- s. trife to thread!!!!!!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 05:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Point taken, Dan. (waaaaaaay upthread) Although I don't know whether most black people would be offended by the word "nigger" or by the sentiment behind it's usage. "nigger", like "wog" or "chink" (perhaps Australian idiom only?) is inherently racist and offensive. Hrmm, I don't know where I stand on this issue any more. I do still think that people who are offended by "cunt" or "fuck" or being called a "cunting fuck" or whatever are dicks.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

QUestion re bullet points though - in what way are they like bullets? So why does that word come in to use. (I would suggest it prob comes via bulletin, is a coincidence of word and also therefore an interesting idea that whilst the the object of bullet point looks little like an actual bullet we can accept the similarity because of its name).

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bless you, Laura, for I would have either asked to see proof of further education in diploma form, started a big fight with that teacher using basic etymology as my first tool (feminists who use 'womyn' etc drive me mad as these are feminists who cannot spell), whacked in a few written thrusts, penetrating glances, violated spaces etc. WHEREVER POSSIBLE, or just called the bullet points 'little nipples' in group discussion and undermine the stupidity that way.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hahaha 'little nipples'=MAN nipples! Brilliant.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

feminists who use 'womyn' etc drive me mad as these are feminists who cannot spell

Suzy, I kiss you (in a nonsexual, non-threatening manner).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dan is feeling the companion-style love tonight. Er, this morning.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

"kiss" is from the same route as "curse" (meaning "i throw my used tampon at you and you turn into a frog")

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Everywhere I go, people start flinging menses. I'm beginning to worry.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

So long as they're not aimed at you...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Duck and cover, son. Duck and cover."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

seventeen years pass...

nothing has ever happened less than the "gender studies class" described in OP

― What's (Left), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link

Ah, the stupendous, death-defying heights of early ILX.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link

great revive

― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link

ffs

― genital giant (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link

I think you mean fp

― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link

this thread is depressing.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, February 24, 2003 4:05 PM (seventeen years ago)

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link

Anyway, OP's faux-anecdote brings to mind the atheist professor copypasta.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link

in the movie of this thread, the teacher is going to be played by Kevin Sorbo

― genital giant (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link

I keep mistaking him for Brendan Fraser.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link

not sure why this was worth reviving

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 05:24 (three years ago) link

-what the EMT will probably say after I go into cardiac arrest

― genital giant (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 05:28 (three years ago) link

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