Why I Am Not a Feminist

Posted on 27 December 2018 by Jessa Crispin

Are you a feminist Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men If so, then you are a feminist or so the feminists keep insisting But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, ineffectual pose that barely challenges the status quo In this bracing, fiercely intelligent manifesto, Jessa Crispin demands Why I Am Not A Feminist is a radical, fearless call for revolution It accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a system of oppression. Free Read Kindle ePUB Why I Am Not a Feminist Author Jessa Crispin – kino-fada.fr Condescending, hypocritical, and bizarrely naive I barely know where to start with this I only started taking notes halfway through and I may come back later withthorough annotations, but for now, let s begin where Crispin ends with her own final summation of her basic thesis.If you re not up for this, if you just want your life to be comfortable, if you just want to make your money and watch your shows and do as well as you can in this lifetime, then admit it to yourself You are not Condescending, hypocritical, and bizarrely naive I barely know where to start with this I only started taking notes halfway through and I may come back later withthorough annotations, but for now, let s begin where Crispin ends with her own final summation of her basic thesis.If you re not up ...Jessa Crispin sets out to discomfit us She is so antagonistic to begin I almost put the audiobook aside The author reads the Penguin Random House edition, and there is a sarcasm and spite to her voice that I long ago decided I would rather avoid Yes, she s angry But she made me curious How and why could she push my buttons and why was she bothering I started again the next day and her arguments sounded different the second time...Heterosexuality is a fucking hellscape for women note from talk by author, February 2017, NYC I wondered what percentage of the largely White, female NYU undergraduate students crammed into the Strand Bookstoreseriously considered lesbianism at that moment Also reminded me of a story about a mix of straight and gay academic couples in a feminist t group in the 70s where the claim was that feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice where does that leave straight men, in p Heterosexuality is a fucking hellscape for women note from talk by author, February 2017, NYC I wondered what percentage of the largely White, female NYU undergraduate students crammed into the Strand Bookstoreseriously considered lesbianism at that moment Also reminded me of a story about a mix of straight and gay academic couples in a feminist t group in the 70s where the claim was that feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice where does that leave straight men, in particular Where are all the feminists that aren t also anti racist anti classist activists, Jesse I am still confused about that Are there a bunch of women s studies professors that don t include in their gendered analyses issues of economic inequality and racism Sure, there are a few, but not many I don t think that social equity issues have slipped off feminist radar In this way, I find Crispins somewhat of a Strawfeminist argume...Where to begin This is a book about how feminism has failed women by being too limited in its thinking It s definitely possible to make this argument in an effective way, but that s not what Jessa Crispin has done here First of all, the feminist of this book is a moving target It often seems to refer to universal feminists, Crispin s made up term for the allegedly vast number of women out there who want to make feminism as bland as possible so everyone feels comfortable calling themselve Where to begin This is a book about how feminism has failed women by being too limited in its thinking It s definitely possible to make this argument in an effective way, but that s not what Jessa Crispin has done here First of all, the fem...Making feminism a universal pursuit might look like a good thing or at the very least a neutral thing but in truth it progresses, and I think accelerates, a process that has been detrimental to the feminist movement the shift of focus from society to the individual What was once collective action and a shared vision for how women might work and live in the world has become identity politics,...A provocative book that has a couple of important insights but hurts itself overall by prioritizing stylistic flare over substance Its title, for example when you read the book, you can see that Jessa Crispin used this title just to draw people s attention, because she calls for a restructuring of feminismthan a dismissal of it As you can see from the available Goodreads reviews, her lack of clarity detracts from the book She does not cite research, and she will often make bombastic c A provocative book that has a couple of important insights but hurts itself overall by prioritizing stylistic flare over substance Its title, for example when you read the book, you can see that Jessa Crispin used this title just to draw people s attention, because she calls for a restructuring of feminismthan a dismissal of it As you can see from the available Goodreads reviews, her lack of clarity detracts from the book She does not cite research, and she will often make bombastic claims about certain groups without specifying her target audience e.g., saying that feminists will do X or Y thing, but not articulating which sect of feminists, which weakens her argument because we are not all the same nor do we have identical views.I give this bookthan one or two stars because Crispin does a great job of addressing how capitalism and ...Un po troppe le contraddizioni, pochi gli esempi Capisco sia un pamphlet e non un vero e proprio saggio ma le argomentazioni spesso mancano di forza e sono vaghe Tuttavia ne consiglio assolutamente la lettura per avere una visione critica del cosiddetto femminismo da copertina che va molto di moda soprattutto sui social media e che non punta minimamente a cambiare il sistema ma solo a foraggiarlo vd magliette con la scritta feminist vendute a 200 e probabilmente fatte cucire alle soli Un po troppe le contraddizioni, pochi gli esempi Capisco sia un pamphlet e non un vero e proprio saggio ma le argomentazioni spesso mancano di forza e sono vaghe Tuttavia ne consiglio assolutamente la lettura per avere una visione critica del cosiddetto femminismo da copertina che va molto di moda soprattutto sui social media e che non punta minimamente a cambiare il sistema ma solo a foraggiarlo vd magliette con la scritta feminist vendute a 200 e probabilmente fatte cucire alle solite operaie sfruttate dell industria tessile Purtroppo la pars destrue...Please go read some Audre Lorde, Patricia Hill Collins, or Angela Davis instead I agree that mainstream feminism does not address many of the issues Crispin suggests, but actual intersectional feminism does To do what Crispin has done here and equate anti capitalism as Not Feminism and brand these ideas as her own is completely unfair to and bordering on appropriative of the many feminists out there, particularly women of color, who have done a lot of work in th... If by declaring myself a feminist I must reassure you that I am not angry, that I pose no threat, then feminism is definitely not for me.I am angry And I do pose a threat I can see why this is a polarising book It is angry it is a bit ranty and it is far from a comfortable read However, I think it is an important book, and I found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with a lot of what Crispin says In particular she takes to task the idea that women in power is an inherently good thing and wond If by declaring myself a feminist I must reassure you that I am not angry, that I pose no threat, then feminism is definitely not for me.I am angry And I do pose a threat I can see why this is a polarising book It is angry it is a bit ranty and it is far from a comfortable read However, I think it is an important book, and I found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with a lot of what Crispin says In particular she takes to task the idea that women in power is an inherently good thing and wonders why, in contemporary feminism, markers of success are the same as in patriarchal capitalism ie money and power A woman CEO can proudly stand up and proclaim her belief in feminism after all, it got her to this position of power while still outsourcing her company s labor to factories where women and children work in slave like conditions, while still poisoning the atmosphere and water supplies ...DNFed this trash You can t write a whole book arguing against imaginary people and their imaginary arguments Absolutely no rigour or research of contemporary feminism went into this It s frankly embarrassing.

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27 December 2018

Jessa Crispin