Ooh! My old Early Modern lit prof just liked my essay criticising PoMo forms of feminism on Facebook. Will have to see if she's free for tea
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She said some of undergrad feminists worried her a bit coz 'Not everything is always about gender.'
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with me doing as I feel directed: kind of a Star Trek "observe but don't interfere" * directive*!
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This is two separate things, I think. 1)Liberalism - people must be able to believe what they like & live according to it if it harms no-one
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2) We can still criticise what people believe & the epistemic basis for believing it. I call them 'right to choice' & 'rightness of choice'
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And I have a thing coming out on the problem of conflating them in a few days. I use the example of Islamic modesty codes.
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Sounds interesting. I'd like to read

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It's awaiting editing at the moment. I say that we can both support ppl's right to comply with gender-specific modesty codes...
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... and be very critical of the idea of gender-specific modesty codes.
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