Spivaks phrase, a great favorite on campus, points to the postcolonial notion that brown men, having been victimized by the West, can never be oppressors in their own right. If they give the appearance of treating women badly, the oppression they have suffered at the hands of Western colonial masters is to blame. In fact, the worse they treat women, the more they are expressing their own justifiable outrage.
Can we say...IDIOT?
4 posted on 01/17/2003 10:56:01 PM PST by chance33_98
To: *Feminist Watch; *Islamic_violence; *Clash of Civilizatio; *Europe_List; *Homosexual Agenda; ...
Having rejected the patriarchal liberal nation-state, with all the democratic machinery of self-government that goes along with it, the utopian concludes that there is only one way to achieve her goals: to impose them through international government. Utopian feminists fill the halls of the United Nations, where they examine everything through the lens of the gender perspective in study after unreadable study. (My personal favorites: Gender Perspectives on Landmines and Gender Perspectives on Weapons of Mass Destruction, whose conclusion is that landmines and WMDs are bad for women.)
PING!
6 posted on 01/17/2003 11:00:24 PM PST by chance33_98