Key Thinkers: Sheila Jeffreys on Kate Millett
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2013
- Part 1 | Part 2Contributing to the Key Thinkers seminar series at the University of Melbourne, radical feminist scholar Sheila Jeffreys talks about the influence of Kate Millett on...
I'm the youngest of seven children, and the eldest in our family was lesbian. She shared Kate Millet's book, "The Basement" with me and our two other sisters in the early '80's and I just couldn't believe that the real crime story was real. Powerful. I suppose it helped to make me a feminist.
I'm sorry to hear that.
@Beaujangles McJiggle What's saddest of all is persons incapable of thought such as yourself, making idiotic comments about other people's opinions. *You are truly pathetic.*
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It's so curious - I've been watching quite a few of these older feminists and they all use the term they ''chose'' to be a lesbian. How do you choose to be a lesbian. If I could be one - I'd start tomorrow. Hetero - is a waste of time, esp. if you're a real feminist (I refuse to use the term radical).
Radical means from the root, not extremist, you should not feel ashamed if you want to call yourself so. And yes, choosing to be lesbian is actually a real thing because there is a lot of cases. It means, women who were/thought they were hetero and were in a relationship/marriage with a man before becoming lesbian (not dating males anymore). Some say women are all bi but who knows ? I personnally don't believe in that but if its true for some women who r we to judge
@@Takiki I'm not ashamed to call myself a radical feminist. I refuse to. It's the lib fems who have conscripted the word feminist and warped it undermine the movement, who should be ashamed. Just like I refuse to use the word cis, I'm not going to qualify my feminism with a descriptor - I'm a real feminist in the actual sense of the real movement.
Also, I"m not judging choosing lesbians and I do know plenty lesbians who've been previously married but they usually tell me that they were always lesbian and didn't admit it, not that they ''chose'' to be a lesbian. I did watch a doco the other day where a hetero woman did fall in love with a woman and overcame her hesitance and I could see myself doing that but it would take quite a process for me, I think. I'm not judging, it's just giving me food for thought and hope for my future, considering the state of men, these days.
it's not about sexual desire, it's about allieship and division of labor
@@brookiegremlin6660 You don't have to be a lesbian to live with women and divide labor and be an ally. I can do that. The term lesbian literally means 'a woman who is sexually attracted to other women'' - so yes, it is about sexual desire. All other aspects of feminism are easy to carry out without being a lesbian.
Recommend looking up the BBC documentary "angry wimmin" which is available here on CZcams. They discuss in depth what they call "political lesbianism". In short, they felt that being heterosexual was incompatible with radical feminist politics, so you should become lesbian as a political statement.