Cath is strongly anti-club and made the usual comments that prohibitionists are expected to make. The interviewer asked an interesting question about whether the views of the dancers should be taken into account, given that many almost certainly consider themselves feminists. Cath's response was as follows.....
'Feminism isn’t about empowering the individual to do exactly what she wants, its about bringing women up as a class, its about liberation for all women, not just a few'.
If you see what I am saying....
For some time now I have been very uncomfortable about some of the collective nouns used to describe dancers or anyone else that Object et al disapprove of. 'Pornified' is one such phrase and I hate to hear anyone described in such a manner, largely because 'name calling' is usually the first stage of a wholesale campaign of denigration.
When Cath Elliott makes comments like the one she made on Norfolk Radio, I realise that we are past the first stage and that third wave feminists really do believe that dancers are second class citizens, with no rights, no feelings and can be treated in any that the campaigners see fit.
"Feminism isn’t about empowering the individual to do exactly what she wants, its about bringing women up as a class"
ReplyDeleteFeminism? It's just rehashed Marxism-Leninism, with the likes of Cath Elliott and Object presenting themselves as the 'revolutionary vanguard'.
One of the most poignant moments for me during the Hackney campaign was when a good friend and dancer from South America had a panic.
ReplyDeleteShe said, 'I can't believe this is happening here. I grew up under a dictatorship and this is the action of dictatorship. I came here to get away from this mentality.'
The mentality that 'Everyone should be as I am. Difference and dissent will not be tolerated. I am this way so everyone else must be this way.' The mentality of dictatorship.
It is typical of the offensive and patronizing way in which the prohibitionist regard us 'poor silly little strippers'. They want to 'save' us for their own egos and sense of worth. To be seen to be doing something no matter how ignorant they are of reality. They view us as automata, as victims who have dealt with their victim-hood by embracing it, as idiots as simpletons who don't know themselves. The opposite is true.
I believe in freedom, these 'feminist' do not.
Said it elsewhere but this just emphasises the statement. Object and Co = Animal Farm
ReplyDeleteWOMEN NOT SEX SLEVES. WOMEN GOT KILLED BECAUSE THEY SO NO TO PERVERTS BACK IN ROMANS DAYS AND BECAUSE FEMINIST WHAT WAS THERE CRIME THERE ONLY CRIME WAS NO CRIME. NAZIS LIED ABOUT THE JEWS. JUST BECAUSE A SLAVES THINK THERE NOT SLAVES IT SILL WRONG. FEMINIST THEY THE FRIGHTING FOR FREEDOM THEY TRY CHANGES THINGS THEY WILL TRY,TRY,AND TRY FOR EQUAL RIGHTS. I WAS BULLY A SHCOOL BECAUSE I WAS FAT AND BECAUSE I DID NOT SEE WOMEN SEX OBJECTS.
ReplyDeleteRoy, is English your first language? And do you know how to disengage the [CAPS LOCK] key on your computer?
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