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PunditMom commented on the article |Here is an amazing take on the whole Facebook meme by a breast cancer survivor.
http://toddlerplanet.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/in-the-name-of-awareness/
PunditMom aka Joanne Bamberger
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PunditMom commented on the article |If she's a 12-14, I don't even want to think about what my real size must be compared to the size tags in my clothes.
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PunditMom commented on the article |
I have to say I don't completely agree with Rebecca Walker's theory. It's too simplistic and on many levels wrong to blame the women who laid the groundwork for division among women today. Many younger women are just as guilty of not listening and I think there was evidence of that at the Netroots panel, as well.
We really won't get anywhere until we can find some common ground and can stop dividing ourselves by so many different forms of identity politics.
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PunditMom commented on the article |
Jen, I hope you got something out of participating in the panel aside from this concern.
But does that mean that we shouldn't have had the conversation? And what do you do when you try to put together a panel and the women of color you know well enough to invite to the panel who can speak authoritatively on the subject can't be present? It's unlikely that people you don't know would accept an invitation based on a cold call request.
Having all voices represented is extremely important, but I have to ask, does that mean we shouldn't have the conversation at all if logistics prevent that? I found it interesting that no one talked about the fact that we had generational diversity and several younger women still felt their generational voice was left out of the discussion even though the panel spanned people from their 20s to their 60s.
The subject of race and feminism is an extremely important, but also thorny, one. I have to ask -- how can we even get the ball rolling on trying to come together for our gender if we're not willing to accept that sometimes it's difficult logisitcally to get the people you want at the same place at the same time?
That's certainly what some in the audience seemed to be suggesting, but I really disagree with that. And as someone who lives in a family with cultural, racial and religious diversity (and as the mother of a daughter of color), I'd like to think that the fact that my skin is white is only one aspect, not the defining aspect, I bring to the conversation.
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PunditMom commented on the article |I completely agree. There is no excused anymore for the high amount of sexism toward women, including all political women. Let's criticize them if we don't agree with their views or if we think they are unqualified. But it's past time to be done with sexist language of any sort to describe any women.
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