Comments on: Is “Dating a Banker Anonymous” Anti-Feminist?

By: ChelseaSW3Girl

ChelseaSW3Girl — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:18:30 +0000

Really; these girls are such wusses. Yes; I know you can't stereotype by nationality, but really, these US WAGS just don't compare well to their UK counterparts who are made of far sterner stuff.
http://chelsea-sw3-girl.blogspot.com/2009/02/city-wags-vs-wall-st-wags.html

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:53:03 +0000

It is, of course, a tangled web we all weave. I just think calling out feminists is misguided because it ignores the real issue. The women who post on the blog aren't so much insulting to other women as they are to other humans.

By: The Sexiest

The Sexiest — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:22:50 +0000

This isn't all that different from Cosmopolitan when Helen Gurley Brown remodeled the magazine in the 1960s and 70s. With more and more women entering the paid workforce, Brown observed that a gender pay difference existed, and encouraged women to go on frequent dates and let men buy them gifts in order to provide some relief for their strained personal budgets.

Sure, "complaining about the slow erosion of luxury from one’s life" is certainly a class issue, but it is often difficult to disentangle the intersection of race, class, and gender. There's a great academic book called Race, Class, and Gender. http://tinyurl.com/c3o9nt

By: Conrad Davis

Conrad Davis — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:52:21 +0000

I imagine that the posters on that blog conceptualize a feminist not as "a person who believes in gender equality" but rather as "a liberal woman". Therefore, when liberal women critisise bemoaning a bottle of Dom while thousands are being evicted in the middle of a freezing winter, they identify the argument as a feminist one. And clearly they don't care to discover the difference.