And then, in relation to my liberal housewife tendencies, last week I got into a conversation with someone who just kind of annoys me in a general sense. This is the kind of person who thinks that if you haven't read every magazine, news article, and book that he has read you must be some kind of idiot. You might get a pass if you are willing to run out and buy said magazine, newspaper, or book, or give him a tip to to the next "it" book (except that he has already heard of it, and well frankly it wasn't very good) but otherwise you are just another dumb, uninformed American. The other annoying trait of said individual is that if you are not ready with a well thought out and reasoned opinion on what he has been deliberating on of late, well...he is just wasting his time chatting with you.(It is normally my policy to not be negative or talk shit about people here, but I'll take a chance on this one.)
At the time, as I stumbled around about giving my opinion on a really very simple political issue, I threw out some dumb excuse for not being up to date on my facts being due to having a baby at home and no time to read. I also fell back on a very weird, "well my husband thinks..." which is kind of a weird response to a question asking me MY opinion.
While the baby excuse is sort of true, the real answer to why I barely skimmed the NYT headlines this morning, much less read in detail all of the stories at The Nation or Mother Jones, is because I was too busy googling myself as a Liberal Housewife and then taking quizzes like this one:
What kind of Feminist are you?
Your Score: Revisionist
You scored 83% Gender-Abolitionist, 100% Sexually Liberal, and 60 % Socialist
You are the Revisionist Feminist! You are, by far, the most philosophical, the most sexually-liberated, and the most politically extreme variety of feminist. You are very, very freedom-oriented. You abhor oppression in all forms. For instance, your views on sexual liberation and reproductive control adequately reflect your devotion to personal freedom. Not only that, but you also feel gender needs to be destroyed to maximize equality and freedom, because accepting socially-constructed gender roles binds women into false categories and places upon them an unneeded identity. Gender should not be a part of one's identity, but rather an irrelevant aspect of their physical bodies, such as their hair length or nose shape. Not only that, but Revisionist Feminists are political extremists and feel very strongly that the oppression of class society is a big part of the cause of women's oppression. Basically, a Revisionist feels that cultural ideas of gender, political class, and repressive sexual morality all work together to oppress women, and the only way to truly escape this oppression is to challenge all of these problems directly and extremely. You are a Marxist, a Gender Abolitionist, and a Liberal Feminist all rolled into one.
The other feminist types:
I think there are probably better uses of my time. I think I'll sign off now and read the latest issue of Harper's Magazine. Okay, not really. I don't subscribe. But I will go color with crayons again while my pre teen zones out at HarryPotter.com
4 comments:
Ah, crap. I'm a housewife (mostly because I didn't like the range of answers given to those pesky questions).
yes, but your a housewife feminist! I didn't much care for the questions either.
I'm a revisionist too haha
66% gender-abolitionist
100% sexually liberal
80% socialist
Hey Shan~
Glad to see that you are making progress with your mile project. I have been working on my push ups and sit ups, personally. I should really start doing a mile project, too. It would be a good thing for me to run more. Sounds like the family is doing well. oh, and I am no type of housewife at all :D
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