>And doug? Cat? Joe? The rest of the Bad Subjects crowd? We must have
>been living in some little haven of feminist thought then, because
>cognizance of these issues seems to be wholly lacking in this
>debate. I don't remember retreading the ground feminists had already
>tread. The dildo and porn wars had taken place in the 80s, by the
>90s, we were aware of them and could reference them in our
>discussions. Today, it's as if none of that was every discussed. It,
>like, disappeared! Man, the way women are talking about slutty,
>trampy fashion makes me think that we lived in some kind of bubble
>at bad and no one ever talked about stereotypes of trash/slut/whore
>or wrote about it and questioned the binary dualism upon which
>notions of white femininity is constructed.
Hey, Ariel Levy is very explicit about wanting to rehabilitate 1970s feminism. She's got a blurb from the scary Robin Morgan!
Doug