Comments on Unmana's Words: Why I Am A Feminist - I

Hey, This is surely an interesting blog. I am glad...

2009-12-02T15:19:46.974+05:30

Hey,
This is surely an interesting blog. I am glad to have discovered this one courtesy IHM.

IHM: Ah yes, I think it was Bets or Betsy. The Fam...

2009-11-24T19:47:03.971+05:30

IHM: Ah yes, I think it was Bets or Betsy. The Famous Five would have been unbearable without George, don't you think? I had a crush on Julian when I was first reading it, but I recently reread one - and Julian comes across as such a pompous prig.

Fatty and Beth or was it Bets (?) for Elizabeth. I...

2009-11-24T18:19:44.185+05:30

Fatty and Beth or was it Bets (?) for Elizabeth. I found Enid Blyton very nice but sexist. But there were some lively, lovable 'tom boys' - maybe her way to create real characters of all kinds.

I identified with Robinhood at a time, and I agree with everything you have written here.

lostonthestreet: I know lots of people are uncomfo...

2009-08-12T10:20:11.564+05:30

lostonthestreet: I know lots of people are uncomfortable with labels. I say I am a feminist simply because I believe men and women are equal. It gives me an answer to all the sexist (and even other kinds of) crap that's regularly thrown at us. Feminism gives me a frame to reference all that, helps me understand why it happens, makes me realise I'm not alone.

Hedonism may be a good start, though!

As usual, when I read your posts, I wonder why I e...

2009-08-12T08:14:44.833+05:30

As usual, when I read your posts, I wonder why I even bother with my blog!:-)
Feminism??
a) I am kind of uncomfortable with any kind of 'isms' other than I guess hedonism
b) Most of the feminist I met ,were the ones who seems to have only one identity -that of being a feminist.Every argument/conversation/thought they had seemed to emanate from that single point, which frankly made them unbearable after a certain point.
I don't what my point is though :-)

Amodini: I LOVED the Five Find-Outers. Especially ...

2009-08-10T11:16:25.691+05:30

Amodini: I LOVED the Five Find-Outers. Especially Fatty - and the youngest girl, whose name I can't remember.

I agree it was a minor irritant: but it adds to children's gender perceptions, and that's sad.

I agree with whatever you have said...I loved all ...

2009-08-09T11:27:23.640+05:30

I agree with whatever you have said...I loved all Enid Blyton books especially the Famous Five...The thing about her books is that they reflect the times they were written in...Yes, the gender roles may irritate us today but one must remember that the author wrote these books 50 years ago...

I did like the Famous Five, and the Five Find-oute...

2009-08-08T22:13:51.944+05:30

I did like the Famous Five, and the Five Find-outers (remember Fatty ?), and my daughter loves them now. The George/Anne behavioral thing was a minor irritant thing though - the stuff in the Amar Chitra Kathas that is passed off for mythology worries me more.

Read and commented! I actually loved the Famous F...

2009-08-08T16:58:20.270+05:30

Read and commented!

I actually loved the Famous Five, and all the Enid Blyton books I read. I did have this vague disquiet, but I wasn't a very critical reader then, I'm afraid.

Ditto! About being born into a home with lots of b...

2009-08-08T16:21:11.368+05:30

Ditto! About being born into a home with lots of books. :)

Also, ditto about identifying with male heroes, and connecting more with a gender neutral sort of role, actually -- but that which is interpreted as more 'male' by people around us.

Oh, I didn't like The Famous Five for precisely that reason. :)

Just wrote out a long post about gender identity, after reading yours.