Feminism

July 31, 2006

[So summer just turns my writing ability to shit.  That’s the only excuse I can muster for not having posted anything since early June.  Nonetheless, I’m back, with some thoughts on the area of STO’s politics with which I probably have the greatest disagreement.  Hopefully this will get me back on track writing more frequently.]

Feminism was never STO’s strong suit.  From the inception of the organization there was significant membership of and leadership by women in the group, but just as it rejected the student-centered orientation of much of the new left, so too did it turn its back on the rising tide of second wave feminism in North America.  (more…)