a response to a response: because silence is unacceptable
I'd like to further add to this confusion.
to the author of "today," I'd like to ask you about your comment on R.S's blog post.
This is not about content of arguments anymore. This is about discussion, respectful discussion.
R.S composed an argument, an intelligible, respectful, supported argument. This person read and sought to engage with your writing.
The least you could do is return the favor.
Though you claim, your response is "not a personal attack,” I would ask you to reread some of your statements and question whether this is truly the case.
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Examples from your comment:
"That being said, if you have such a problem with the way this country functions LEAVE!!!"
"However, you think women are treated and portrayed poorly in this country, you're in for a rude awakening sweetheart."
Instead of education, do you think illiteracy is more ideal? How would you suggest that our country survives on us all living in shacks and sleeping on the dirt ground. There are plenty of places on this earth where that is the living conditions, I'm sure you could make yourself at home."
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Your comments are condescending and rude. I respect whatever points you choose to argue. However, I will NEVER respect an argument that seeks to personally attack, belittle, and silence. That is what you have presented.
May I also suggest use of a less fallacious argument? I am uncomfortable with hypothetical examples of how I should be indebted to society because at least I’m not in
a
“war zone where your being abducted into sex-slave service while your 9year old brother is beaten and then drafted into the Rebel army to fight in combat to kill your best friends mom in the nearby village. Is advertising as bad as that?!?!(RowGophs)”
Thank you.
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bell hooks, on the formation of a new social order:
“New social orders are established gradually. This is hard for individuals in the United States to accept. We have either been socialized to believe that revolutions are always characterized by extreme violence between the oppressed and their oppressors or that revolutions happen quickly. We have also been taught to crave immediate gratification of our desires and swift responses to our demands.“The formation of an oppositional world view is necessary for feminist struggle. This means that the world we have most intimately known, the world in which we feel “safe” (even if such feelings are based on illusions), must be radically changed.”
“Those revolutionary impulses must freely inform our theory and practice if feminist movement to end existing oppression is to progress, if we are to transform our present reality.”