Someone on here asked me if I'm a feminist. Maybe the fact that I'm a female theoretical astrophysicist could be one clue.
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Eminent feminist prof told me evolution is exactly equivalent to creationism coz both are debunked metanarratives.
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@IonaItalia@AstroKatie And science is masculinist coz it 'privileges' testing & evidence & reasoning. Women have own 'ways of knowing' -
You'll find ppl who've gone mad on the lunatic fringes of ANY mass movement.
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And can cherry pick examples of their craziness till the cows come home. British ppl r insane: look!
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Women are insane: look! Men are insane: look! Democrat voters are insane: look! Every grp of ppl contains
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a subgroup who r insane.
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That is not the point at all.
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I know that's how u understand feminism & therefore I can totally see why you oppose it. I do think, tho, that every movement
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has its lunatic fringe & ppl r 2 quick to tar every1 w that same brush. But this is going 2 become a question abt semantics
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which isn't helpful. More worrying 2 me is when
@AstroKatie says we shd "respect" religion, esp. Islam. Not Muslims. Islam. -
Oh dear. That is disappointing.
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It's a really common, well-meaning but muddle-headed, confusion.
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