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Originally Posted by somerfrost
I think there are many examples of where one may take an academic, philosophical position that goes against their general viewpoint of a subject. I would agree with your take there...I feel that things that happen to us don't determine who we are, rather how we react to same determines who we are! I agree that women have historically been rendered invisible by male-dominated societies but that's different from saying that a woman's essence is determined by the behavior of others. Labels are often confusing to some...I am a feminist yet I'm anti-abortion, that's a hard-sell to most feminists, especially when I agrue that all feminists should be anti-abortion!
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If you're a reader, it's actually a really good novel, one of my favorites that I had to read for a course in all of college (at least that wasn't written by toni morrisson).
Of course I didn't believe that rape is beneficial to anyone, and still don't. But it was a provocative position to take and defend using the novel and the novel's stylings.