Got it. The author is a liar for relating her experiences with a specific feminist segment and I am too for telling you how it was at UW-Madison, WI in the early 1990’s. You’re usually better than this.
She’s reiterating her experiences with her severely mentally ill sister. She then extrapolates that to all the feminists everywhere who took down society. Do you think that Millet’s brand of feminism won? Can you really say that? The women who are most likely to know who she is are the women who are most likely to have a family. (Or, ironically, be lesbians who want the right to be married. What did I tell you about disagreements within feminism
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Now, if this woman had titled an essay ‘What it’s like to be Kate Millet’s Sister’, I would read it in a heartbeat, out of intellectual and maybe a little morbid curiosity. I would especially love her perspective on their childhood. But what the author did instead was exploit the fact that she has a disturbed sister who said many shocking things. She was a great woman in many ways. She did a good job explaining what it was like to live as a woman who was held back by the current system. Kate Millet saw a lot of very real problems in our society-she just disagreed with me, you, and most other people-feminists included
on how to solve them. But Kate Millet, Marxist feminism, and Hollywood stars named ‘Julie’ have nothing to do with each other. This article was just meant to inflame and insult.
And uh, I’m not arguing with your experiences at college. I was telling you that’s not shocking to me, considering it’s a college, and there’s a very well known music festival with that spelling that happens to be within a road-trip distance. But you’re showing your own ignorance about feminism by portraying that as a mainstream thing.
I fully admit to categorizing and simplifying (this is a popular forum, not a phd thesis), but you’re just denying the reality of anything outside your own experience. Which is worse?
Not denying anything, just not happy about how everything was presented.
P.S. Yes, I spell atrociously in English, much less French!
