Comments on: The Bad Feminist http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/archives/19 Careful she bites Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:11:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Naomi Mc http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/archives/19/comment-page-1#comment-9 Naomi Mc Mon, 18 May 2009 15:23:00 +0000 http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/?p=19#comment-9 On the Vietnam case, very good point. I stupidedly got this mixed up with a story from Papua about babies rather than sex-selective abortion. My mistake and I have amended to reflect this. On the Vietnam case, very good point. I stupidedly got this mixed up with a story from Papua about babies rather than sex-selective abortion. My mistake and I have amended to reflect this.

]]> By: graimito http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/archives/19/comment-page-1#comment-8 graimito Mon, 18 May 2009 15:10:00 +0000 http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/?p=19#comment-8 Interesting article, and to be honest, I've never quite understood this first-, second-, third-wave feminism thing. There's something a little too etch-a-sketch about it; it gives the impression of returning to square one every generation, rather than building on and recontextualising what came before.<br /><br />Anyway, just a couple of things:<br /><br />"Firstly, there are not enough of us and we are not winning, so let’s not become arrogant, superior and exclusionary."<br /><br />Not implying, of course, that it would be OK if there were loads of feminists, and if they were winning.<br /><br />The only other thing I wanted to raise was this: Regarding the sex-selection of children in Vietnam, I wonder whether it's appropriate to say that "baby girls are being sex-selectively murdered in Vietnam".<br /><br />As a feminist and pro-choicer, you wouldn't accept the statement that abortion is the "murder of babies". I can see that there are key differences, and while they add a different and significant moral angle to the issue, I don't think that it justifies the use of the term "murder".<br /><br />That said, the sex-selection of children is morally wrong and condemnable, and though I don't see it as murder, it almost needs its own term... Interesting article, and to be honest, I’ve never quite understood this first-, second-, third-wave feminism thing. There’s something a little too etch-a-sketch about it; it gives the impression of returning to square one every generation, rather than building on and recontextualising what came before.

Anyway, just a couple of things:

“Firstly, there are not enough of us and we are not winning, so let’s not become arrogant, superior and exclusionary.”

Not implying, of course, that it would be OK if there were loads of feminists, and if they were winning.

The only other thing I wanted to raise was this: Regarding the sex-selection of children in Vietnam, I wonder whether it’s appropriate to say that “baby girls are being sex-selectively murdered in Vietnam”.

As a feminist and pro-choicer, you wouldn’t accept the statement that abortion is the “murder of babies”. I can see that there are key differences, and while they add a different and significant moral angle to the issue, I don’t think that it justifies the use of the term “murder”.

That said, the sex-selection of children is morally wrong and condemnable, and though I don’t see it as murder, it almost needs its own term…

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