[lbo-talk] Zmag

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Mon May 1 18:24:26 PDT 2006


At 09:02 PM 5/1/2006, Carrol Cox wrote:


>Are you familiar with the old G.I. label for such: pissing contests?
>
>Carrol
>_________________________

Actually, my goal in this series of posts, which hadn't been conscious of at first, is to bring to the masses (heh) your argument that what we've forgotten is that knowledge emerges from political practice. Thus, the first arm in this sustained discussion must be that, more than simply a mistake, these pissing matches are built into the premises of the major strands of feminist theory (and leftist theory more generally). Instead, of using an ad hominem insult and calling what's been going on "pissing matches" I kept it at the level of theory, to dissect why the theories to which people are wedded, inevitably yield this debate.

So, no: pissing match isn't what it is if what you are saying is: this is unimportant. It can't be since this is all anyone every talks about. We are having the very same war over some feminists rejections of transmen and transwomen as not really men and women and, thus, as a threat to feminism and people we must kept out of women only spaces and that kind of stuff. it will crop up again next month on another issue, no doubt. It crops up in the Radical Women of Color community when trying to talk about genderqueer identity or black/latina relations.

Also, innumerable people have said what you've said in these debates. it doesn't stop the debate since the criticism is ad hominem and doesn't get us anywhere.

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