Nietzsche was the first and greatest Feminist! Truly! I will reveal this truth to you now. Who could forget the opening line of Beyond Good and Evil, wherein the old philologist says it plainly: SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman--what then?
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That Nietzsche himself goes on to speak from a masculine perspective in no way detracts from his feminism, for he was the progenitor of all of "postmodern" thought, and without him there could have been no Foucault, or Derrida, or Deleuze
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Postmodern--that much maligned word, which is clumsy because it refers to the attempts of men to articulate a fundamentally FEMININE way of being; for thousands of years philosophy had been an exclusively male endeavor, because its territory was the wild frontier
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Frontiers are tamed by men, and in the male soul, the frontier exists to be conquered, an inescapable compulsion. But once it has been conquered--and Kant was such a conqueror--then it can become settled, and then woman can join man, and make there a home
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And now that woman is here, what a home she has found! Just as Christianity was the feminizing of Judaism, (remember that Jesus called himself the Bridegroom of the church), postmodernism is the feminizing of philosophy, or to borrow a word, the deterritorialization
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In a way one could say that philosophers wandered the desert for millennia, that the Germans found and inhabited the promised land, and that Nietzsche came not to abolish philosophy but to fulfill it
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Such audacity! But the old philologist, an expert at reading texts, was himself audacious! He named his life story Ecce Homo, behold the man! the words of Pontius Pilate as he showed Jesus to the crowd
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What Nietzsche discovered and gave to man, like Prometheus stealing fire from god, was what woman had known all along, namely, the FEMININE MODALITY OF KNOWING, an epistemology of immanence and immediacy
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Long have I heard men of the Right Wing mock and belittle the proclamations of feminist hubris, that they shall invent new sciences of physics and biology which will challenge the linear and rational male perception of the world
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The male gaze—-how women long for it—-and how they hate themselves for longing! In the eyes of a man it is not only woman that becomes an object but nature, god, the earth, the sea, the sun and the moon! How can he be so obtuse?
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This reminds of people who say, in a cruder way, that feminism is just a massive “shit test”—acting up because men have become infatuated with objectifying nature (playing video games at the simplest level).
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