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Ism-ism
> disliking the word "sexism" doesn't require cluelessness about > the conditions the word labels. OK. But why "be bored" with the gamut of feminism when there's a range of positions in there? Especially when as you point out the conditions that led to it are >still< largely there? Those conditions require a response and feminism is where you'll find the discourse. Why write it all off? Maybe you're not bored with feminism, you're bored with >some< feminists? (SOme come to mind...) You say that labels like femiinism and racism (presumably anti-racism) are wrong because they're still -isms and because they imply an attitude of "J'accuse". But there's a culture and indeed a set of people who should be accused, be identifed, be opposed. When people are suffering, don't blame them for fighting back, especially when they deploy intelligence and discourse to do so. > "Girlism" sounds like a club style It sounds like girl power, which we brits invented, and which is largely consumerist posturing. And BTW I just wrote this after having my boy fall asleep on me as I put him to bed, so this passes your test ! ;-)
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