Comments | _allecto_: Clemetine's courageous article and my rather cheeky response

_allecto_

Clemetine's courageous article and my rather cheeky response

Jan 14, 2008 20:42

SUNDAY MAIL columnist CLEMENTINE FORD reveals she had not one but two abortions - and that it was a really, really easy decision without guilt or shame.Clementine, you are an incredible, brave and amazing woman to stand up and put yourself out there for the rights of women and children everywhere. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your ( Read more... )

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fatty_bumsticks January 16 2008, 08:07:53 UTC

Clementine has a blog too, which I really love. I don't know whether you've found it.

http://audreyapple.blogspot.com/

Rachel

_allecto_ January 17 2008, 11:19:11 UTC

I had a look at her blog and I quite like it but I think she is a bit too liberal feminist (lipstick feminist) for my tastes. And some of the posts she made were either downright offensive or ignorant. For example the post where she linked to a youtube video called 'Big Girls'. That video and it's messages were fucked in my opinion. And also her discussion on queer marriages. She didn't even acknowledge that there are those of us in the feminist movement who want an end to all marriage. So, yeah, I think she leaves a lot to be desired with her blog. But still, I admire her guts and her willingness to put herself out there as a feminist.

fatty_bumsticks January 17 2008, 12:31:39 UTC

I think the blog is aimed at being easy-to-read and entertaining and light-hearted to a certain degree (to read and to write, I assume), which makes the liberal feminist ideology easier for those I'm Not A Feminist But... people to understand and identify with rather than straight-out rad fem. Months back when I started reading her blog the message towards some aspects of gender politics was "Isn't this a bit shit?" and now it's more "I'm a feminist, and this is REALLY shit", so maybe she's gained confidence with what she writes in a blog style from the readership response that she's gained ( ... )

_allecto_ January 17 2008, 13:30:31 UTC

I'm glad that you like her blog and that you get something out of what she has to say. I never said that her blog was worthless or boring or anything like that. There are many women out there who are attracted by her writing and take on things. Fair enough. I will support women like her as sisters when they do something courageous, like Clemetine did ( ... )

anonymous January 16 2008, 15:22:35 UTC

Allecto,

Thanks for this. I followed your link to her article and posted a cheering reply.

She raises the important issue of the public shaming of women. I see the rise of p*rnography as very much linked to the rise of anti-abortion sentiment. Each of them succeeds through endless expressions of shame directed toward females.

Each of them supports the other in denying any respect whatsoever for the adult female body, and in creating a social context in which females are the public and private property of males - never our own individual property.

Mary Sunshine

_allecto_ January 17 2008, 11:24:39 UTC

I see the rise of p*rnography as very much linked to the rise of anti-abortion sentiment. Each of them succeeds through endless expressions of shame directed toward females.

Hmm... I had ever linked this together before but I think you're right. The more sexually enslaved we are, the greater are the attacks on our reproductive freedoms. And yes we are merely property for men, everything in our society reinforces this message. Every social structure enforces our bondage.