Women in Dark Times (2014)
“I realise this is not the way that women are mostly seen or talked about. More often women are assigned to the other side of reason, emotional where men are calm and reasoned, and in the case of feminism, excessive, unreasonable precisely, in the demands that it makes. Or perhaps not in the demands themselves, at least not in a Western world which boasts of its freedoms. Challenge anyone, man or woman, presenting themselves as Western subjects on the streets of, say, London as to whether women ...have the right to equality, and most are likely to say yes. ‘I often wonder what state feminism would be in,’ a letter from Mark of West London in the London Metro put it, ‘if it wasn’t called just that. Imagine if it was just called “equal rights for women”.’ Perhaps, he then muses, ‘people who might otherwise be reluctant to endorse feminism would be able to see quite clearly what it is and what it stands for, and support it as a result.’1 What unsettles, he is suggesting, is not the aims of feminism but something about the atmosphere the term feminism creates.MoreLess
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