I think people who say things like that are being stupidly resistant to reality and the whole feeding the machine thing. So on a certain level, I don't care if I stop a conversation with them. And if they contend that feminism has to support their "pure, free choice" just bc they're a woman, I will smack them down.
But the one thing that works when I don't want to stop the conversation is posing these things as questions. Like, "how do you feel your dieting is influenced by pressures on women?" or "would it change things if you had a daughter who was watching you do this?" - I have to be more polite than I may feel, but I've had some good conversations this way.
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Date: 2004-12-17 03:31 pm (UTC)But the one thing that works when I don't want to stop the conversation is posing these things as questions. Like, "how do you feel your dieting is influenced by pressures on women?" or "would it change things if you had a daughter who was watching you do this?" - I have to be more polite than I may feel, but I've had some good conversations this way.