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                                             July 28, 2009
                                       Rev:  May   5, 2010

In which I lodge some complaints about
"geekfeminsts", though it's more than         A common dodge is
likely I should be complaining about          to complain about an
some sub-set of geekfeminists... but          "extremist" faction,
what should I call the sub-set?               without working too
                                              hard to define the
                                              boundary of the extreme.
In any case, here's a summary of
some problems I've got with the GF.               (Maybe I should go after
                                                   the "hive vagina".)
First of all, I take this as the
center of the scene:

   [ref]            It came to my attention
                                            because of issues like this:

One complaint I've got is that                   POLAR_TRAP
a lot of them seem to be stuck
in the feminism of the 70s:

   CONTROLLING_THE_NARRATIVE


Another complaint:
they seem to mistake
classification with                    The entire geekfeminism wiki has a
refutation.                            whiff of this about it (to my nose),
                                       but it's really strong in this
"We've all heard *that* before"        particular bingo card:
can be an effective rhetorical
stance, but it applies as well         [ref]
to feminist doctrine as to
responses to it.                           Presenting a list of
                                           typical arguments is not
     It's possible that when you           a counter-argument.
     hear a message from many
     different sources, that                   (Why not provide us
     means you should take it                  with a list of
     more seriously, not less.                 approved things that
                                               we're allowed to say?)


In general, they seem to have bought
into a very stereotypic view of the
sexes without realizing it:

   Women are weaker then men,
   and need to be protected.

   Women are easily offended
   by sexual material and
   off-hand sexist quips.

      Oh, how can you men be
      so *insensitive*.

      If you don't show some
      *respect* we're going to
      just leave, and take our
      hive vagina with us.




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