Oh, i'm certainly not opposed to open communication. I just found from my own experience that dialogue is, from the perspective of the under-privileged, a losing proposition. It takes energy, and the proponents of the oppressive status-quo outnumber us, so where one stops another can come along and take his place, and eventually you get worn down from trying to "dialogue" continually with a shifting group (who have, interesting, an amazingly homogenous message, so much so that one seamlessly blends into the next) of status-quo defenders. And experience shows it is not going to result in anything changing, so it distracts from direct activism.
Refuse to "dialogue," though, and you are dismissed as unhinged! Or worse, you think to yourself that maybe you missed the chance to educate an uninvolved observer.
It's crazy to me to see folks lionize people like say Ida Craddock, and then effectively do nothing as the same shit happens in their society
Oh, yes. Few things will get you ostrasized faster in the modern occult community, than pointing out that from the feminist perspective the counterculture looks far from being "edgy" and "progressive" and "new," but rather quite conspicuously perpetuates the same sexist stereotypes as the mainstream patriarchal order.
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Date: 2006-09-28 07:55 pm (UTC)Refuse to "dialogue," though, and you are dismissed as unhinged! Or worse, you think to yourself that maybe you missed the chance to educate an uninvolved observer.
It's crazy to me to see folks lionize people like say Ida Craddock, and then effectively do nothing as the same shit happens in their society
Oh, yes. Few things will get you ostrasized faster in the modern occult community, than pointing out that from the feminist perspective the counterculture looks far from being "edgy" and "progressive" and "new," but rather quite conspicuously perpetuates the same sexist stereotypes as the mainstream patriarchal order.