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Geez Louise! Another Wimmin’s Blog
Slate has a new blog called The XX Factor. The blog is written exclusively by wimmin, and while I am sure it will include some first-class contributors, I have some issues with wimmin’s blogs in general and so-called feminist blogs in particular.
Some of that has to do with self-indulgent piffle like this (sorry, I couldn’t help myself), but the larger issue is that feminists need to be part of the broader conversation, as Dana Goldstein aptly puts it, and not segregated.
We’ll see.
5 Responses to “Geez Louise! Another Wimmin’s Blog”
This feminist got rid of the rotten spelling decades ago!
Are there references to “womyn” there?
I don’t see that the need for feminists to be part of the ‘broader conversation’ is any different that the need for Afro-Amerocans or Hispanics to do the same. It’s a special interest group like any other.
Do women talking together still seem threatening to you, Shaun?
Hahahaha
domajot:
Everyone needs to be part of the broader conversation.
That doesn’t mean there can’t be many side conversations, but the ongoing Balkanization of interest groups in the blogosphere ultimately does a disservice to the greater whole.
Alas, The Moderate Voice is the rare exception.
Unfortunately, even on here many can’t deal civilly with a diversity of opinion. Where is the love?