Feminism and U - Rustybucket

Ding! Dong! The Bitch is Dead!

 

Mary Daly’s dead.

Or she has been for more than two weeks as she died on January 3rd. Still, it’s not every day someone important dies, especially not famous feminists. Some of you may be know who she is, some of you won’t. For the convenience of the latter group, that’s okay, because I’m here to paint a particularly nasty and biased picture of the hag for you.

Mary Daly is the epitome of everything wrong recently with the feminist movement. She was a radical lesbian feminist who taught at Boston College, and was almost fired for a publication of a book in 1968. Following support from the public and the all-male student body, she wasn’t fired and was granted tenure. That’s perfectly fine, though, because 30 years later she was fired (or in the words of the media, “retired”) and lost her tenure because she decided to refuse male students from attending her classes. Oh wait, that sounds awfully familiar...

…Nope, doesn’t ring a bell. Can’t remember what that reminded me of. Oh well, it couldn’t have been important.

 

"Boston College has wronged me and my students by caving in to rightwing pressure and depriving me of my right to teach freely," Ms Daly said. "This is not about discrimination. This is about leveling the rights of women and minorities."

Of course, Miss Daly decided to elaborate on that view:

"But Daly argues she cannot effectively teach these courses with men in the room because it creates a dynamic that inhibits women. Not only do men misunderstand her concepts - because men cannot understand what it's like to be a woman - but they tend to be disruptive, believing they are similarly oppressed, she says. These kinds of disrupting influences 'dumb down' the class, she insists, keeping it from 'soaring.'"

Makes sense.

To a question posed to her about an article that stated that men should be reduced to about 10% of the population, she supported the idea and elaborated that “If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males.”

The transcript of the interview can be found here:

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j16/daly.asp?page=2

It’s people like her that make the modern woman disassociate themselves with the term “feminist.” The image is no longer the positive one of strong women marching for suffrage, for the right to their own body, to equal treatment, but of a lunatic who doesn’t shave in defiance of “the man,” butchers the English language by quibbling about job titles, and thinks of men as the scum of the earth and the instigator of all that is unholy. The feminism movement is based on equality, and for those who define themselves as feminists and believe in that concept still, wonderful: All my love to you for supporting a reasonable concept rather than one of purging the male population like a Feminazi Germany. To those of you who consider this woman to be respectable and credible rather than merely an interesting read, what provokes you to think this way?

On a related note, the Toronto Women’s Bookstore is in danger of closing its doors. Seeing as it is actually a positive influence on women, I implore you to support them in their time of need.

http://www.womensbookstore.com/communityletter.html