tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509053156280655479.post906334770869277277..comments2023-06-14T08:24:18.553-04:00Comments on The Feminist Underground: Washington Post Takes Another Bite At the Feminist Bookstorehabladorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01730183259272125337noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509053156280655479.post-85768530841038703482008-08-17T19:08:00.000-04:002008-08-17T19:08:00.000-04:00The point to Sax, I think, has little to nothing t...The point to Sax, I think, has little to nothing to do with the Twilight series - the books are simply being used as a prop in his gender-essentialist promo piece. I do think, though, that pop culture is important - we get a lot of our ideas about how the world works/should work from the images we're exposed to, and those ingrained notions can be hard to overcome.habladorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01730183259272125337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509053156280655479.post-1161477042346105662008-08-17T18:29:00.000-04:002008-08-17T18:29:00.000-04:00I'm sick to death of the Twilight-is-feminist or T...I'm sick to death of the Twilight-is-feminist or Twilight-is-anti-feminist articles. Why do we have to allow pop culture to define serious gender issues? Maybe we should look at, oh, I don't know, how people actually live their lives instead of what they read on an airplane.<BR/><BR/>As for me, I'm not reading it. Ever. (As a lapsed Mormon, reading something by a Mormon housewife is Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00590540336794948058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509053156280655479.post-10156870009357790692008-08-17T13:39:00.000-04:002008-08-17T13:39:00.000-04:00Great take-down of an idiotic argument, NewsCat. ...Great take-down of an idiotic argument, NewsCat. There seems to be a popular formula for getting published in the Outlook section:<BR/>1. Redefine feminism<BR/>2. Invent some conspiracy and attribute it to feminism without any evidence - here that there was some elementary course designed to teach kids that boys should hate their wieners, or something.<BR/>3. Don't present any data - only habladorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01730183259272125337noreply@blogger.com