Meghan Murphy recently suggested a controversial, (to her readers), approach to addressing the problem of pornography. Her response to her critics seriously misrepresents radical feminism. Last July, writer and founder of Feminist Current, Meghan Murphy, launched what would become a series of more than a dozen posts, articles and podcasts about pornography over a period of at least six weeks. In her
" ... a few posters speculated that her new stance on porn might be due to a new boyfriend who consumes it."
I have lived a little too long to kid myself: that is the first thing that came to my mind. She just found herself a guy and is trying to gerrymander him into her sense of feminist self-respect.
All of this comes off the heels of Meghan Murphy's newfound popularity with members of the political Right, especially conservatives like Benjamin Boyce and podcasters like Joe Rogan who frequently has right-wing guests on his show.
Meghan felt so attacked, so vilified by the Left because of her critiques on gender identity that she felt the need to find an audience with conservatives who are transphobic (I wouldn't call them gender critical since they are misogynistic and anti-feminist) because they were the only ones willing to listen to her when the left-wing media and academia tried to ostracize her as a bigot.
Now Meghan feels indebted to try to "understand" men when this was never her position as a feminist up until a few years ago.
Coming late to the party. As a Canadian I am appalled by the lack of radical feminism in this country. I have not found even one “gender critical” group or organization that is not fundamentally conservative. I despair.
Very glad to see an article talking in depth about the value of politically conscious women only spaces. I owned a women's only martial arts studio and taught women only self defense classes for over a decade, and I can tell you from first hand experience how women grow and become empowered when their eyes turn away from the guys in such a space. Marilyn Frye said something that echoes what the article points out about employer and employee spaces. She said, "“It is nothing extraordinary for a master to bar his slaves from the manor, but it is a revolutionary act for slaves to bar their master from their hut.... The woman-only meeting is a fundamental challenge to the structure of power…When those who control access have made you totally accessible, your first acts of control must be denying access or must have denial of access as one of its aspects"
Focusing on men's responses and reasons for using porn decenters women. Isn't it time that men look at their own misogyny? Isn't our taking on their feelings and "needs" the same as letting men pretending to be women into our spaces? I think it is.
" ... a few posters speculated that her new stance on porn might be due to a new boyfriend who consumes it."
I have lived a little too long to kid myself: that is the first thing that came to my mind. She just found herself a guy and is trying to gerrymander him into her sense of feminist self-respect.
You can't, Meghan.
All of this comes off the heels of Meghan Murphy's newfound popularity with members of the political Right, especially conservatives like Benjamin Boyce and podcasters like Joe Rogan who frequently has right-wing guests on his show.
Meghan felt so attacked, so vilified by the Left because of her critiques on gender identity that she felt the need to find an audience with conservatives who are transphobic (I wouldn't call them gender critical since they are misogynistic and anti-feminist) because they were the only ones willing to listen to her when the left-wing media and academia tried to ostracize her as a bigot.
Now Meghan feels indebted to try to "understand" men when this was never her position as a feminist up until a few years ago.
Coming late to the party. As a Canadian I am appalled by the lack of radical feminism in this country. I have not found even one “gender critical” group or organization that is not fundamentally conservative. I despair.
Very glad to see an article talking in depth about the value of politically conscious women only spaces. I owned a women's only martial arts studio and taught women only self defense classes for over a decade, and I can tell you from first hand experience how women grow and become empowered when their eyes turn away from the guys in such a space. Marilyn Frye said something that echoes what the article points out about employer and employee spaces. She said, "“It is nothing extraordinary for a master to bar his slaves from the manor, but it is a revolutionary act for slaves to bar their master from their hut.... The woman-only meeting is a fundamental challenge to the structure of power…When those who control access have made you totally accessible, your first acts of control must be denying access or must have denial of access as one of its aspects"
Focusing on men's responses and reasons for using porn decenters women. Isn't it time that men look at their own misogyny? Isn't our taking on their feelings and "needs" the same as letting men pretending to be women into our spaces? I think it is.