actually, fwiw, she's arguing that The Second-Wave Lesbians Who Raised Her used "politically correct" to police their community members ideologically.
I came out into a pretty hardcore lesbian separatist community in all my bisexual kinky glory, so I kinda know she's talking about. But as lanning said, "we are not children any more, Ms. Bear." To keep pretending at this late stage that her experience of the term in the past is the whole sum of its meaning now -- it's the very definition of willful ignorance. Emphasis on the willful.
Re: Via network
Date: 2010-08-07 06:32 am (UTC)I came out into a pretty hardcore lesbian separatist community in all my bisexual kinky glory, so I kinda know she's talking about. But as lanning said, "we are not children any more, Ms. Bear." To keep pretending at this late stage that her experience of the term in the past is the whole sum of its meaning now -- it's the very definition of willful ignorance. Emphasis on the willful.