Comment by motohagiography

I remember this era of cool and transgressive feminism and it had echoes of the late 60s "scum manifesto," and I even still have some Jenny Holzer art around here somewhere. "biological-determinism" was the thing to revolt against at the time. seeing writing from that time now, I remember presentations about archeological finds of crude goddess icons and carved stone sexual aids from more idealized ancient (and ostensibly non-patriarchal) civilizations and wondering how nobody else seemed to notice that these were all that remained of them.

I think what's come out of it is that 35+ years ago this was a conversation, and now it's just a power struggle.

she was right in that tech and feminism are inseparable because the homogenization of roles and overcoming physical sexual dimorphism is only possible with some kind of external technical aid. the argument at the time was even "nature," was part of the patriarchal ontology that must be rejected. sure, we can subordinate people to machines and processes that sustain an equality narrative, but they get quickly overrun by people who are not subject to it.

imo, millennia from now archeologists will be finding our own silicone dongs and wondering what could have befallen a civilization so advanced that it could produce these things in the billions, and yet so little else of it remains.