Monday, June 16, 2008

Fundamental Diagreement Series Part II

**DISCLAIMER**


Allow me to make an important clarification. I agree with the movement to allow women to decide what they want to do with their lives and to be treated respectfully, etc.

I fundamentally disagree with Feminist Literary Theory.

This is one of the strongest areas of fundamental disagreement, or be the most fundamentally disagreeable part of the thing I hate the fundamentally disagree with the most [TBD]. I fundamentally disagree with it so much, I have two pictures for added emphasis. If these images do not give you the willies, I deeply fear for you.


Where as the feminist movement, after they quit trying to be men and started working towards choice and a healthy lifestyles, was quite positive and it has allowed for a lot of great women to contribute to the world. Feminist Literary Theory is a completely different monster that has little to do with anything, let alone hard working, creative women that are trying to impact society.

Feminist Literary Theory was mostly created by the French [I know, go figure]- mostly people with the title of "Naturalist" , what ever the hell that is. One of the cutting edge thoughts of this type of theory is that true feminism has never really be tried. Feminism is interconnected, overlapping, the diffusion of pleasure and power. The reason it has never been tried is because [this may be news to you] the world exists in a phallocentric mentality. Meaning things come to a point [yes, with a penis as a metaphor], a climax, an end. People set goals, formulate arguments, assign authority, schedule their lives etc. These are all very unfeminine things, apparently. You might be wondering, "How the hell would people talk or learn or do anything if there was no point or goal?" This would be a very astute question, one that raced around my brain for most of the fall of 2007 as I was forced to spend my fleeting youth learning this.

The irony enters when you observe that the "naturalists" that are making this argument and be quite unfeminine in doing so. A working model of a "fully realized feminine" does not seem to be able to function and would lead to wider spread starvation and anarchy. Feminist Literary theory is simply an empty, worthless, ineffective, and inapplicable frill of a theory that the progressive intellectuals of society embrace because it makes them feel smart about themselves and better than people that are trapped, ignorantly, in their "phallic" goals and arguments.

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