February 10th, 2012 at 2:25AM
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Anonymous asked: If you say women can't be a Christian and pro-life and a feminist aren't you placing limitations on feminism.

Firstly: I didn’t saying women can’t be Christian and feminist. I said that aligning oneself with Conservativism (and thereby aligning oneself with fundo Christianity and anti-abortion beliefs) precludes being a feminist. For reasons i outlined earlier.

Secondly: i’m not really placing limitations on feminism. I’m simply describing the limitations feminism definitionally places on itself, id est that it is a perspective that’s incompatible with viewpoints that work to maintain the things it works against.

Anonymous asked you:
I realize that feminism is meant to be about expanding possibilities and choices for women, but feminism is not, by virtue of that, a politics of carte blanche. Just because a woman choose to be or do something, that does not AUTOMATICALLY make it feminist. After all, I doubt anyone would argue that it is feminist to choose to be a mass murder just because an individual woman chooses become one.
Well, yes. I agree.
  1. betterthanrl said: I didn’t see it as limiting… although the term “fundamentalist Christianity” could possibly be exchanged for a term that is more precise.
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