I am always uncomfortable when someone decides to use a national (global, really) platform in which to confront deep familial issues. I have no doubt her childhood was hard. I also have no doubt that Alice Walker is not all things to all women, and that she is not necessarily the perfect role model for feminism. She is a particular woman from a particular place and time, and she is eloquent on the subject of what she derived from those experiences.
That said, I've always believed that once a person went down the road that said feminism was equal to doing things like a man and not doing things that only women can do, that person had completely missed the point.
But such opinions are also the reason I am loath to call myself a "feminist" by any commonly-accepted definition of the word.
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Date: 2008-06-02 03:58 am (UTC)That said, I've always believed that once a person went down the road that said feminism was equal to doing things like a man and not doing things that only women can do, that person had completely missed the point.
But such opinions are also the reason I am loath to call myself a "feminist" by any commonly-accepted definition of the word.