{"id":1188,"date":"2008-10-02T18:47:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T22:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2008-10-02T18:47:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T22:47:21","slug":"communicating-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/10\/02\/communicating-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicating Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday Courtney Martin and I had a little convo about Robin Morgan’s latest piece over at the Women’s Media Center,<\/a> in comments<\/a>. Thought I’d share snippets here:<\/p>\n

CM: <\/span>Did you really think she was at her best D? You know I love me some WMC, and I thought it was chock full of interesting details, but I’m not sure this is a terribly effective way to communicate. Seems like a terribly effective way to alienate. And make the converted chuckle.<\/p>\n

DS:<\/span> Ok Court, you made me read it very closely again. I found objectionable parts. Like, “Bottom line: Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book title: Dreams from My Father. McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book title: Faith of My Fathers. Patriarchy? You think? Neither one gets it. BUT. One doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t not get it much more than the other.” I think of it differently. And I also think this line is a bit of doublespeak: “HRC campaigned intrepidly. But her campaign was unworthy of her\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s her fault.” If it’s her fault, then it’s her fault. Just own it. And lastly, this line: “We must never again collaborate in our own invisibility.” Not sure I agree with Morgan that that’s what happened in the primaries.<\/p>\n

But other than that, I did think the piece–full of vitriol, yes, and sure to p** off the nonconverted–was effective in terms of pulling together a lot of what I’ve been thinking about the Palin-McCain ticket and hence in rallying a base. I do think outrage is called for in the face of McPalin. And I agree it’s not exactly a bridge-building kind of piece. But tell me more C — what specifically turned you off? The tone? The format? The content? I wanna know.<\/p>\n

CM: <\/span>You pointed out lots of the things that irritated me, but even more than that, I just find Morgan’s overall tone so alienating. It’s like, and I feel bad writing this but it’s really how I feel, a feminist Dowd…too clever and snarky and sarcastic to really communicate from the heart. Maybe I’m just cheesy, but my favorite writers get at the HEART of politics. I feel like she’s missing heart. (I’m also, totally admittedly, still angry at the way she characterized young feminists in her last controversial piece.)<\/p>\n

It all got me thinking a lot about feminist messages and communication styles. Got thoughts on this? I’m curious to hear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Courtney Martin and I had a little convo about Robin Morgan’s latest piece over at the Women’s Media Center, in comments. Thought I’d share snippets here: CM: Did you really think she was at her best D? You know I love me some WMC, and I thought it was chock full of interesting details, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21464,21803],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-intg","tag-sist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}