This one's going around again, so what the hey.

[beetiger]

Ganked from all over my friends list, but hopefully you guys aren't bored of it yet...

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other.

I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

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[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

Phrasing this is also hard for me. I don't even know if you identify as a Feminist, but I'm going to make an ass out of u and me and ask my original question anyway.

What school/camp/ideology/whatever you wanna call it of Feminism do you most closely identify with? Ack, my grammar sucks today.

Anyway, I'm a Postmodern Feminist with a heavy dose of bell hooks-style "it's about people of all genders, it has to do with rethinking everything that we do" tossed in. With an infusion of Shulamith Firestone-style pleasure at the current restructuring of "family" and "relationship" definitions/values. And a bit of Liberal and Radical Feminism for contradicting flavors.

But I realized I don't know anything about your Feminist leanings and, well, knowing your scholarliness, (and a bit about your girlfriend) I'd be surprised if you hadn't given the matter any thought at all.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a labels/ideology-type, overall, so I'm not sure what the right catchphrases and all are. Keep in mind my formal edumacation in this stuff is minimal and mostly a decade old. Julia could probably tell you more about the right labels for me than I could.

Some stuff about me and feminism, though: I tend to hang out a lot with Goddess Spirituality folks, when I'm looking for female empowerment and all like that.

Politically, I think it still makes sense to act like a minority --there are still "women's issues", and their still not being addressed right by the media nad the mainstream culture, and we still aren't there yet.

I'm philisophically in the school that says that feminism is ultimately about people's rights rather than some subset of people's rights, and I'm right out there with the postmodernist in being flexible about what defines a person as a woman. But on the other hand, I still see an incredible value in separatist -style womenspaces. I think we ultimately need to all come back together, but I don't think we're in a place culturally to do that yet.

Sorry if this is a bit incoherent. I've had a little monster all day today.

[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yep, I grok your meaning.

Speaking of monsters, when are we going to let him save the Mashuntucket Pequot Museum from Certain Doom? Or meet his amphibian foes that lurk in Mystic?

I'm not free Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday afternoons, or Saturday mornings. But Wednesdays and Fridays are all open. Fridays are better for car-borrowing. I have an errand to run in Western CT, so I'd love to go soon.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

This Friday might actually work great. Call me when you get a chance.

[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

Ooh, will do. Probably tomorrow, I'm so wrecked tonight, I'm barely coherent.