American Dream wrote:Canadian_watcher, I was troubled by the way you sloughed off concerns about racism in the work of David Icke.
Here's the question I would pose for you:
How well would you accept the discounting of analogous concerns about misogyny embedded within the world view of someone else purporting to tell the deeper truths of what is going on in the world?
It's kind of an eye opening question, that, thank you. Any woman over the age of 30 sees this in practice every day. We have always had to make that compromise.
Lets put it this way:
Example 1: AJ has a horrible view of feminists and he vehemently opposes abortion. He has pretty much stated that men are workers and fighters and women are nurturers. He says all of this, but at the same time he does not discount female researchers or speakers. He is still learning, as am I.
Example 2: Most advances in any direction up until the mid twentieth century came from people who held the view that women were inferior and some of those people would have voted against women's suffrage, against making women persons under the law, would have supported their male colleagues who went home at night and beat their wives.
At the same time, though, those men might have also brought forward cures for diseases, crafted eloquent arguments for other types of social reform, etc. I would have cheered them for that, in spite of their sexism.
