Biba was bombed because the women's movement thought it was a capitalist enterprise devoted to sexualizing women's bodies.
The whole gosh-darned women's movement?
Then I guess the 16th Street Church Bombing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing) proves that every white person in America in 1963 was in the Klan.
Of course there is another answer -- outside of movements like Nazism & Stalinism, you don't do anyone any favors by taking even personal experiences with the least pleasant people in movements as representative of the whole. She had, if she is to be believed as an honest narrativist, terrible experiences with militant, Marxist oriented feminists two generations ago that continued. She concludes, as most dishonest critics of any ideology do, that this is representative.
There's a lesson here -- the most radical and militant of ANY movement are to be avoided like the plague...and the people who describe them as indicative of the entire movement without bothering to prove it lose their right to be taken seriously as critics. Which is a shame because if her narrative had been restricted to the danger of radicals instead of propping up the radicals as the entirety of the movement, it would be a great cautionary.
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Date: 15/6/11 11:42 (UTC)The whole gosh-darned women's movement?
Then I guess the 16th Street Church Bombing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing) proves that every white person in America in 1963 was in the Klan.
Of course there is another answer -- outside of movements like Nazism & Stalinism, you don't do anyone any favors by taking even personal experiences with the least pleasant people in movements as representative of the whole. She had, if she is to be believed as an honest narrativist, terrible experiences with militant, Marxist oriented feminists two generations ago that continued. She concludes, as most dishonest critics of any ideology do, that this is representative.
There's a lesson here -- the most radical and militant of ANY movement are to be avoided like the plague...and the people who describe them as indicative of the entire movement without bothering to prove it lose their right to be taken seriously as critics. Which is a shame because if her narrative had been restricted to the danger of radicals instead of propping up the radicals as the entirety of the movement, it would be a great cautionary.