um what?

[lauralh]

"There's simply an irreconcilable contradiction between feminism and femininity, two largely incompatible strategies women have adopted over the years to try to level the playing field with men...Heterosexuality always was the Achilles heel of feminism because the asymmetries involved usually took the form of adequacy for one sex, inadequacy for the other."

where to begin?

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[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

there's only one page.

basically I don't really think that Femininity is All About Getting A Man.

[strukcher.livejournal.com]

oh jeez... durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... i thought the continue story link took me to a new page. not like i'm online all day or anything... jeez.

anyway -- that's an exceptionally good point that sorta blows the whole critque out of the water, huh?

[bewing.livejournal.com]

I agree with you, Laural. I also don't think that there is anything inherently "inadequate" about females within the idiom of Femininity. Which shoots down the other half of the critique.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

i guess what can you expect from a professor of media studies?