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Owen Jones explaining feminism again. What would we do without him.
I keep forgetting to ask him if I’m doing feminism right or not.
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Owen Jones explaining feminism again. What would we do without him.
I keep forgetting to ask him if I’m doing feminism right or not.
Doc Stock left out one name:
The Singing Budgie has been her name for as long as I can recall.
Again, the everyday sexism is also present. Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Paul Macartney, et al have been allowed to age along with their faces, while the Kylies, Madonnas, Hawns, et al must forever pursue the unattainable fountain of youth.
Owen could use a refresher on first-order logic – even if he were right about Stock, “there exists an opponent of trans rights who is not a feminist” does not in fact demonstrate that “all opponents of trans rights are not feminist.”
Well, I doubt that Kylie will like Stock’s piece, which I thought perceptive, but that is no criticism of it. If Owen Jones dislikes the piece so much he should write a serious critique of it instead of reaching for the nearest cliché.
I’m just floored by his lack of reading comprehension; or maybe it was just his short attention-span. The article, I would argue, was scarcely about Kylie at all. She was simply the opening example in an argument against the normalization of plastic surgery, in general as well as specifically for the purposes of preventing the appearance of aging in women.
I can only assume that he got 4-5 paragraphs in, and was so aghast that someone had dared to critique a celebrity that he immediately stopped reading in disgust, unable to bear another word.
Indeed, if you can look at that image and not realise something is terribly wrong or understand that something’s wrong but think feminism is the problem you are very much the problem.
And I like the way Doc Stock does philosophy:
It’s a modern day sorites paradox: how many grains of sand make a heap? There’s no obvious cut-off point. Likewise, no one can say at what point precisely all the injections and incisions start making you look like a startled alien. Over several iterations, surgeons seem to gradually lose track of what the visual baseline ever was for a person. They start off replacing the timbers in Theseus’s ship but end up building a hovercraft.
And it get better from there.
Doc Stock does philosophy and good writing at the same time. Since I was sub-editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine for several years I can testify that’s not universal in the profession.