Valkyrie on Feminism and "natural appetites"

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

Here 3 funny scans from Avengers Academy #3. Various superheroes are visiting the kiddies to teach them various stuff. One class has the female cadets learning from the mighty Shield-Maiden herself!

Her advice is...to the point.

Plus, a Juggernaut funny!



Class is in session.





I want a Hercules and Valkyrie mini now.

The kiddies are also in a "super-scared straight" program where they visit The Raft and talk to the Thunderbolts.

Reptil has a question for Cain.



Hehe, is Reptil to polite to ask him to say, "I'm the Juggernaut bitch!"

Comments

[valtyr]

And I wasn't 'parroting half-remembered feminist theory that I don't understand' - first off, it wasn't a theory, it was a statement, and I remember it quite clearly. I will admit that I don't remember where I first encountered it, but I'm sure with a little research I could turn it up. If you wish, I can do so.

Yes, you were. You see, I already know who 'said' it, when they 'said' it, and the social and legal context they 'said' it in, and I understand the point they were making. I also know what they actually said. You obviously don't 'remember it clearly', because you've mangled the quote abominably as well as taking it out of context.

The "all sex is rape" quote is actually debunked on Snopes, that's how often people going 'lol extreme feminists' repeat this nonsense. Please stop perpetuating this in your attempts to dismiss what you describe as 'extreme' feminists. In fact, you could just stop trying to dismiss feminists, that would be awesome.

Also, your saying that it can't be feminist theory because it's a statement is just nonsense. Theorizing, you don't know how it works.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Look, if I was wrong about the quote, then fine - you evidently know more about it than I do - but I was not trying to 'dismiss' feminists. I was simply saying that there ARE extremist feminists, just like there are extremist everything elses, and Valkyrie's portrayal here would seem to be a commentary played for humor on the sorts of things they say. That's all I was saying - that, and that the comic itself didn't seem to be anti-feminist, as Tigra was calling herself a feminist.

[valtyr]

And speaking as someone who has already commented in this post on how I largely agree with Valkyrie's points, I find it irritating to have these views described as 'the lunatic fringe', all right?

You don't know anything about what you call 'extreme' feminism, as shown by your misquote; you're writing off something you don't know anything about. You don't have to agree with the more radical areas of feminism (I don't agree with some of them) but talking about them when you don't know anything about them just displays your ignorance and perpetuates bad information.

[psychopathicus_rex]

I would venture to correct you that I know a LITTLE bit about extreme feminism - I used to be close friends with someone who self-identified as a radical feminist back in college, and we had a number of long and interesting conversations on the subject, so I at least know THAT much. The issue is more that I didn't know as much as I thought I did. I thought I was referring to a valid quote, all right? I remember reading it in the 'New Yorker', or some similar magazine. If said quote has been debunked and is no longer - or was never - valid, then fine, you evidently know more about the subject than I do, but I wasn't just randomly throwing out something - people have chided me in the past for unsubstantiated research in my arguments, so I thought it best to give an example that I knew HAD been published at some point, and that I could look up and quote if need be. If I picked the wrong one, I'm sorry - that was the one that came to mind.
And I wasn't necessarily describing Valkyrie's views as 'the lunatic fringe' - although they seem a tad on the extreme side to me, but that's just me - I was saying that they seemed to be a REFERENCE to the lunatic fringe, by which I simply meant the more radical areas of feminism. You evidently object to the term, and I'm sorry if it offended you, but as I explained earlier, I wasn't saying that extreme feminists are crazy or anything - it's just a term. If I can use it to describe extremist conservatives or extremist liberals or extremist environmentalists or any of many other political and or/social groups or movements, many of which, I should add, I AGREE with, then I fail to see why I can't also apply it to extremist feminists.