Comments on: Eroding Feminism

By: Sally Armstrong

Sally Armstrong — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:49:46 +0000

Brilliant piece. Thank goodness for this observation. The conversaton in the Ivory Tower is getting “curiouser and curiouser.”

Sally Armsrong

By: Iblys

Iblys — Wed, 30 May 2012 03:33:45 +0000

I am in love with this piece.

By: Adele Wilde-Blavatsky

Adele Wilde-Blavatsky — Mon, 28 May 2012 09:17:39 +0000

Excellent article, well-written and argued. Thanks!

By: Amy Clare

Amy Clare — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:17:01 +0000

*applause* An excellent article, you express so well exactly what I’ve thought many times. It’s self-perpetuating too because heads of Women’s/Gender Studies departments are more likely to approve research students whose ‘interests’ are similar to theirs. I wonder how many potential PhD, etc students get turned down because their areas of interest might be considered ‘imperialist’.

By: Carmichael

Carmichael — Sun, 27 May 2012 11:10:38 +0000

“And no matter how hard you try, you just can’t pin it all on American foreign policy in the Middle East, on neoliberal economic policy, or on colonial legacies.”

Sadly, they can, and they don’t even have to try very hard. Go to any comment thread discussing the Muslim world and you will encounter exactly those sentiments. For some people, it seems, virtually nothing happens in the world without Western imperialism, past or present, being somehow responsible. It’s almost as if they are denying agency to non-Westerners. But that couldn’t be right.

By: Sajani

Sajani — Sat, 26 May 2012 23:53:32 +0000

Hello, what a wonderful read. My sentiments exactly.

By: julian

julian — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:55:54 +0000

But I will speak out whatever the skin colour and whatever the religion of the victims of misogyny.

Words to live by. Thank you for the wonderful read.