Certainly in the 1960s women reacted to the sexism of the broad Left by retreating from it. The feminism of the '70s derived a lot of its momentum from our realization that Leftist Men were men first and leftist second, by and large. Ditto the Gay Liberation types -- they were willing to use the sympathy of feminist women, but they did nothing to help us.
So yeah, I'd say that the slurs and sneers against "identity politics" are pretty much undeserved. They are propaganda designed to undermine the groups who share those identities. The mainstream media were hostile to feminism from the beginning and that hostility never really went away. It merely went underground for a while.
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Date: 2011-11-12 07:14 pm (UTC)So yeah, I'd say that the slurs and sneers against "identity politics" are pretty much undeserved. They are propaganda designed to undermine the groups who share those identities. The mainstream media were hostile to feminism from the beginning and that hostility never really went away. It merely went underground for a while.