Because if feminism becomes “moralism” it is no longer feminism, and because we  – true feminists – celebrate the powerful and beautiful metaphors of “witch” and “whore”.

For some years now, I had promised myself that I would no longer express my opinion on social and political current affairs. I had made this decision for two reasons. The first, is that the crazed society reflected in social media is so full of opinion-makers, professional and casual, that people can certainly do without my testimony. In the background noise, every opinion becomes just more noise. The second reason is that devoting time to less ephemeral topics than current affairs made me feel less superficial and gave me the illusion that I was contributing more to my personal growth and – said ironically – to that of humanity. Why then make an exception now? Because this time the themes of current affairs coincide with those of a path of mine: the study of feminism. This theme interests me both from a strictly philosophical and political point of view, but also and above all in terms of how it is declined in literature and in general in anthropologically relevant facts of culture. Women writers and female characters who represent the fate of women in a world of men is one of the centres of my interests in recent years, although I am mainly interested in it declined in specific linguistic and geographical contexts (those of East Asia). Continua a leggere “Against false feminism” →