Comments for Trouble and Strife

Comment on Danny Dyer by The_Dame

The_Dame — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:50:56 +0000

No it’s ok, wait, he was just “misquoted” I wonder what he meant to say. I mean his sensitivity is there for all to see

“You’ve got nothing to worry about, son. I’d suggest going out on a rampage with the boys, getting on the booze and smashing anything that moves. Then, when some bird falls for you, you can turn the tables and break her heart. Of course, the other option is to cut your ex’s face, and then no one will want her.”

Comment on Danny Dyer by Strange Loop

Strange Loop — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:26:29 +0000

The article says:

A spokesman for ZOO said: “Due to an extremely regrettable production error, an inappropriate and indefensible response to a letter has appeared in this week’s issue.

What production error? That the editor approved the text as Dyer wrote it?

Dyer said what he said, and he should be held responsible for it. ZOO should fire him immediately.

Comment on Turning the tide by Maybe when I have more energy… « Modus dopens

Maybe when I have more energy… « Modus dopens — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:18:09 +0000

[...] was somewhat intrigued by Delilah Campbell’s new feature article up at Trouble & Strife, and in particular, her comments on men in feminist consciousness raising. She writes: If I ask [...]

Comment on In New Orleans, prostitute = sex offender by edna

edna — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:14:20 +0000

Prostitution should be taken out of sex offenders
law. thats why we have so many return offenders that are drug related in a revolving door.
Because they have sex offender tagged on them and are not excepted anywhere when they come out of prison.Housing is impossible and work also is not there so they go back to drugs and prostitution to support there habit and money to live.Prostitutes don’t deserve to be in this group they hurt no one but their self.They get turned down even when they want to do better and go to a rehab to get rid of ther drug habit so they won’t prostitute no one wants to take them because of the flyers they have to put out in the neighberhood.This is a crime that the law is doing and causing repeat offenders.

Comment on Gagging on WAGS by Strange Loop

Strange Loop — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:53:25 +0000

It’s like a sort of fantasy WAG competition: Sam v Sarah, and the winner takes on Michelle.

I wonder what German coverage of their First Lord/Man/Guy has been, and whether he gets graded on his hospitality, gentility and uncritical support for his wife.

Comment on Libbers by Strange Loop

Strange Loop — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:44:18 +0000

IP, I totally get what you’re saying, and to some extent I agree. It’s not that I don’t consider my self a social justice advocate, it’s just that my focus is on violence against women, and the social justice activism I am most involved in is based on that.

I do believe that women experience the world differently than men do in a lot of ways, that there is some commonality of experience. This isn’t down to some essential difference between the sexes, but in how we are conditioned to expect life and other people to treat us.

Girls are raised with the awareness of male violence — real, potential or threatened — and that makes a huge difference in how we interact with the world around us.

Comment on Libbers by A quick roundup « Modus dopens

A quick roundup « Modus dopens — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:10:46 +0000

[...] feminism, called Women. The first episode, “Libbers”, has aired. It’s reviewed at Trouble & Strife, and at the [...]

Comment on Libbers by IrrationalPoint

IrrationalPoint — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:30:53 +0000

Ok, I think we just have a basic religious difference. I guess I would say that I can be both a radical feminist and a social justice advocate, and I don’t need commonality for that to happen.

–IP

Comment on Libbers by Strange Loop

Strange Loop — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:48:05 +0000

There may not be a set of experiences that all women share, but I do believe that there is a set of potential experiences and events that women could and sometimes do go through that creates a commonality of sorts. There's a reason I am a "women's libber", and not a "human rights activist" or a "social justice advocate", and that is because of those commonalities.

Comment on Libbers by IrrationalPoint

IrrationalPoint — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:30:44 +0000

Well, it’s certainly more indicative of a bias on the part of the interviewer, director, producers, etc. But the “collective women’s experience” was a direct quote from one of the interviewees (French? I forget). As long as we think that there *are* experiences that are somehow definitive or constitutive of womanhood, then we privilege some women (the ones who have had those experiences) over others; and it’s not at all clear that there are is in fact anything (role, experience, psychology, etc) that all women have in common.

So talk of “the collective women’s experience” looks like essentialism, but dressed up in consciousness-raising terminology, and that seems a shame. If there’s one thing that CR has done for me, it’s emphasize the diversity of experiences. Not that there’s only one effect of CR, of course, but it seems a shame to present CR as something that’s inherently for White middle class women, or that CR reinforces WMC-centricity, or something.

But you’re right that this wasn’t just down to the interviewees.

“I’m hoping the next two programmes will provide wider perspectives, especially considering it’s a series called “Women”.”

Yes indeed.

–IP