Comments on: Preach It, Sister

By: Benquo

Benquo — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:26:02 +0000

@Glen,

Are Julian Sanchez and Will Wilkinson the same person? That would explain why I’ve never seen them together…

By: jr

jr — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:27:04 +0000

If Kerry supports anti-discrimination laws. was what I wanted to end with.

By: jr

jr — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:25:05 +0000

Sure a libertarian can believe in the social construction of gender, since that is not a political issue of itself. And there is some non-trivial overlap between libertarian issues and feminist ones, like allowing abortion, stopping rape, banning genital mutilation and stopping state-sanctioned discrimination.

But to say that women are oppressed by social norms does not sound libertarian. Libertarianism is concerned with coercion after all. Sure, Kerry can be libertarian and argue against the social construction of gender by herself, but it is hard to see how taking political action against would be consistent with libertarianism. And conversly, a feminism that doesn’t want to take political action against the social norms that are seen as oppressing women is not much of a feminism.

It would be interesting to know if Kerry

By: pfjo

pfjo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:53:42 +0000

But libertarianism IS only concerned with coercion which is one of the movements primary problems. It has no underlying moral philosophy that applies to non-coercive entities… it simply holds up freedom as virtue.

I hate to say it but Ayn Rand was right…

By: Glen

Glen — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:26:34 +0000

You should be very careful about referring to your girlfriend as “sister,” regardless of context.

By: John Galt

John Galt — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:48:31 +0000

You know, I may need to borrow that line about shooting up and organ sale. Because that is a fair “worst” case scenario… I guess.