My questions to you are -- why does it matter to you whether he is or isn't a feminist?
Bakker interests me only marginally, as friends and people on my friends-list blog about him. I have no intention of reading his books, but I have by now read enough of his actual stated opinions in blog posts and comments to believe I have enough data to form an opinion of my own. (Note that I am not saying that everybody should have formed an opinion from this, only that I have). I have not engaged with him directly, and have no plans to do so. However, the discussions around Bakker interest me.
and why should it matter enough to me for me to have formed an opinion?
We are commenting in an entry about Bakker's feminism or lack thereof; this seems to be the topic proposed by our hostess.
You want a yes/no answer -- and anyone who knows me knows I'm not big on those. Some people are exclusionists -- they like the simplest possible boxes I wonder if you are implying here that I am exclusionist or want to put people in boxes?
In any case, I really do not have a quarrel with you; you are entitled to your opinions, just as I am entitled to mine.
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Date: 2012-04-29 04:50 am (UTC)Bakker interests me only marginally, as friends and people on my friends-list blog about him. I have no intention of reading his books, but I have by now read enough of his actual stated opinions in blog posts and comments to believe I have enough data to form an opinion of my own. (Note that I am not saying that everybody should have formed an opinion from this, only that I have). I have not engaged with him directly, and have no plans to do so. However, the discussions around Bakker interest me.
and why should it matter enough to me for me to have formed an opinion?
We are commenting in an entry about Bakker's feminism or lack thereof; this seems to be the topic proposed by our hostess.
You want a yes/no answer -- and anyone who knows me knows I'm not big on those. Some people are exclusionists -- they like the simplest possible boxes
I wonder if you are implying here that I am exclusionist or want to put people in boxes?
In any case, I really do not have a quarrel with you; you are entitled to your opinions, just as I am entitled to mine.