From: Gary Dale <Gary.Dale-AT-ee.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:17:52 GMT
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: wiggle them hip



Maybe what really puts people of radical and marxists political
groups is not so much 'unreconstructed masculinity' (whatever that
is), but their anal obsession with other 'marxists' that nobody
has heard of or cares about and what each of them have or have not
got between their legs (how this affects an individual's
revolutionary potential is unclear....)

A better start might be to relate to changes in the world outside.
It seems to me that some people are very static in their assumptions
of the ideological forms of capitalist society - there's no reason
why capitalism cannot 'go feminine'.
How about the reclamation and ascendancy of 'feminine values' in
society at large over 'masculine' values?  For a stark example,
look how the military is re-packaging itself as a 'gender normed'
women-friendly, human-rights loving organisation.  

One problem with the feminist critique of masculinity tends to be
it's moral character - all the rhetoric about 'dead beat dads'
is reaciontary criticism imv.  Another is gender theorists/social
constructionists reproducing old prejudices as virtues.

Gary D.



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