A lot of this I agree with - but I disagree on the notion of a regulated and regime-like feminism. Feminisms are a broad church which include much debate and dissent and that's as it should be. The point of the tshirts is to raise awareness that feminists still exist (counter to the gamut of newspaper articles suggesting we died out shortly after dinosaurs) and that we're all different. That said I never bothered to order mine when I joined Fawcett because I don't wear tshirts....
As for the label - like most things it's useful to have a name for the collective actions one is taking (like LGBT or BME etc). But the label doesn't define what is and isn't possible (and how many times have you come across someone claiming to be a feminist who appears to act in entirely the opposite manner?). And no feminist I've met has ever said "if you're not for us, you're against us". Unlabelled action is important, labelled action is important and protecting the label from the Daily Mail like slurs and misrepresentations is also important.
As for the notion of post-feminism - as the slogan goes - I'll be a post-feminist in the post-patriarchy!
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Date: 2010-07-23 08:33 am (UTC)As for the label - like most things it's useful to have a name for the collective actions one is taking (like LGBT or BME etc). But the label doesn't define what is and isn't possible (and how many times have you come across someone claiming to be a feminist who appears to act in entirely the opposite manner?). And no feminist I've met has ever said "if you're not for us, you're against us". Unlabelled action is important, labelled action is important and protecting the label from the Daily Mail like slurs and misrepresentations is also important.
As for the notion of post-feminism - as the slogan goes - I'll be a post-feminist in the post-patriarchy!