Ecofeminist Perspectives

Campus Report ^ | February 5, 2008 | Bethany Stotts

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Ecofeminist Perspectives

by: Bethany Stotts, February 05, 2008

The readings presented by the panelists encompassed a strange synthesis of Marxism, feminism, environmentalism, and lesbianism, which they argued were in ideological continuity....

Neocolonial Postnationalism

“Land remains the common ground for all radical action. But land is more than the rocks and trees, the animal, and plantlife...For immigrant and native alike, land is also the factories where we work, the water our children drink, and the housing project where we live. For women, lesbians, and gay men, land is that physical mass called our bodies,” Professor LaRochelle read, quoting Moraga. Moraga also wrote that “Throughout ‘las Americas,’ all the ‘lands’ remain under occupation by an Anglo-centric, patriarchal, imperialist United States.” In other words, this platform for “radical action” and self-realization involves a war against the “patriarchal” and “imperialist” United States.

Moraga characterized the “U.S.-imposed” border as an arbitrary, painful scourge upon the earth...

Female Bodies, Hating Whitey, and the Earth

“Indigenous women and ecofeminists would agree, however, that as [Susan Griffin] puts it in “Ecofeminism and Meaning” that ‘the racist mind, the misogynist mind, the mind afraid of nature and which denies natural limitation and mortality are often the same mind,’” argued Professor McNeil....

Ironically, McNeil also argued that Native Americans and ecofeminists share a “fundamental principle” by believing in the “interconnectedness of all life” while tearing up over a fictional scene in which Native Americans perform the Ghost Dance....

The Ghost Dance incorporates profoundly racist doctrines at its core.... The adherents believed that if they continued to dance the Ghost Dance, God would wipe the earth clean of whites and resurrect the death Native Americans....

Other Indians, such as Sitting Bull, spoke openly of bloodshed between Indians and whites....

[untenured]

Half of me wants to say this is the sort of gibberish that will never matter off campus, away from campus nuttery.

But then the other half of me remembers the Frankfurt School, the deconstructionists, the SDS,...

[Greg F]

Ecofeminist legs.

[Spok]

I won’t dignify this crap by calling it jibberish. To paraprase a tag line I saw recently “I may not understand what you’re raving about, but I’ll defend to your death my right not to try.”

[gridlock]

When you combine stupid ideas, they get so much stupider. There is a stupidity multiplier effect.

[weegee]

“The readings presented by the panelists encompassed a strange synthesis of Marxism, feminism, environmentalism, and lesbianism, which they argued were in ideological continuity....”

That is the WHOLE POINT of political correctness. You have to subscribe to all the agenda items the Socialists dictate. There is no debate. Dissent is not tolerated.

They claim they are “in ideological continuity” because they are new gods. Do not blaspheme against the damned intellectuals.

[weegee]

The Sexual Politics Of Meat
ADAMS, Carol J
Continuum - pb - ISBN: 0 8264 0513 4
$17.95
The groundbreaking work that introduced the idea that the eating of meat and the oppression of women are intimately connected. Welcome to a feminist ethics of vegetarianism.

Neither Man Nor Beast: Feminism And The Defense Of Animals
ADAMS, Carol J
Continuum - pb - ISBN: 0 8264 0803 6
$15.95
More essays exploring the hidden relationship between the eating of meat,and the exploitation of women. Among the topics discussed are animal experimentation and patriarchal culture, abortion rights and animal rights, racism, ecofeminism, and the interconnected abuse of women, children and animals. If you can get past the odd lapse into God, this is essential, and provocative reading.

[Max in Utah]

There is a stupidity multiplier effect.

And as everyone knows, you can't fix Stupidity Multiplier Effect.

[LonePalm]

When you combine stupid ideas, they get so much stupider. There is a stupidity multiplier effect.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[STONEWALLS]

the guy that challenges this BS better than anybody is David Horowitz....an old campus Lefty himself, he has long since come in from the cold and enjoys poking holes in radical academic pomposity....check him out here:

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/

[King David]

Damn. You forgot to warm me with a “BARF ALERT” before I read this story.

I feel like that little kid in the E-Trade commercial who pukes all over himself... “whoa!”