The KKK article is fascinating less for what it reveals about the history of the KKK (I'm always surprised in how American progressives consistently see female sex or gender as a sorta-guarantee of more progressive/left leaning views, I guess nobody told them about Thatcher. And Le Pen. And Meloni. And Szydlo. And and and and.) and more for the closing line. Because the conclusion to a tale of women fighting for women's rights WHILE being racist stating it's a "patriarchy in a wig" refuses to engage with reality on a very fundamental level.
Sure, it's possible that the Klan women were brainwashed victims of patriarchy and exercised their internalised misogyny by demanding suffrage and pay for domestic labour. But it's also possible that the phenomena bundled in the current American progressive "enemy cluster" (racism, anti-feminism/sexism, homophobia) are only tangentially related and it's actually perfectly possible to be a fevrently racist white supremacist person (also: fevrently racist white supremacist gay person) who believes in the equality of men and women (within each race, or maybe JUST for the whites). I genuinely can't see why not, in principle (and gay right wingers are common where religion isn't a factor in politics).
Neuromancer movie? I'll believe it when I see it. The rights to the novel have been tied up for decades. But maybe Apple can pull it off and then I'll have to subscribe. 😮
Apple+ TV miniseries. The show runners have a good pedigree and Apple+ has not shied away from spending enough money to pull off sci fi concepts (Foundation). So there are some reasons to think it might not be as awful as Johnny Mnemonic.
The KKK article is fascinating less for what it reveals about the history of the KKK (I'm always surprised in how American progressives consistently see female sex or gender as a sorta-guarantee of more progressive/left leaning views, I guess nobody told them about Thatcher. And Le Pen. And Meloni. And Szydlo. And and and and.) and more for the closing line. Because the conclusion to a tale of women fighting for women's rights WHILE being racist stating it's a "patriarchy in a wig" refuses to engage with reality on a very fundamental level.
Sure, it's possible that the Klan women were brainwashed victims of patriarchy and exercised their internalised misogyny by demanding suffrage and pay for domestic labour. But it's also possible that the phenomena bundled in the current American progressive "enemy cluster" (racism, anti-feminism/sexism, homophobia) are only tangentially related and it's actually perfectly possible to be a fevrently racist white supremacist person (also: fevrently racist white supremacist gay person) who believes in the equality of men and women (within each race, or maybe JUST for the whites). I genuinely can't see why not, in principle (and gay right wingers are common where religion isn't a factor in politics).
Neuromancer movie? I'll believe it when I see it. The rights to the novel have been tied up for decades. But maybe Apple can pull it off and then I'll have to subscribe. 😮
Apple+ TV miniseries. The show runners have a good pedigree and Apple+ has not shied away from spending enough money to pull off sci fi concepts (Foundation). So there are some reasons to think it might not be as awful as Johnny Mnemonic.
I would like to say I'm hopeful, but my heart has been broken so many times! 😢🤭