Re the attraction of feminism: i think it’s very seductive to be able to explain away failures as due to misogyny or anti-semitism etc. as it allows one to avoid confronting the possibility personal character flaws.
Re the attraction of feminism: i think it’s very seductive to be able to explain away failures as due to misogyny or anti-semitism etc. as it allows one to avoid confronting the possibility personal character flaws.
Be careful though - just as it may be seductive to explain away failures as due to misogyny, it is equally seductive to explain away interest in feminism as a purely self-interested phenomenon. Sure, it probably is, at least some of the time, but I doubt that is true all the time.
Re the attraction of feminism: i think it’s very seductive to be able to explain away failures as due to misogyny or anti-semitism etc. as it allows one to avoid confronting the possibility personal character flaws.
Be careful though - just as it may be seductive to explain away failures as due to misogyny, it is equally seductive to explain away interest in feminism as a purely self-interested phenomenon. Sure, it probably is, at least some of the time, but I doubt that is true all the time.