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Why is difference feminism so unpopular among feminists?
The vast majority of men believe that being a feminist means, or would mean, supporting Women's unique contribution to life an society.
They believe that feminism, coming from their part, is a demonstration of love for this Other, instead of the usual domination, domestication and despise.
Not so, for a great proportion of feminists!
One should never talk about sex differences, unless they are constructed gender differences as is now the norm in academia.
A minority of feminists (like Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva) are caught red handed, advocating for a difference that sends (through an ultra-slippery slope) women back to nursing, cooking, cuddling and all those animal instincts.
And "radical" feminists are worried and angry. Because the Men/Mars-Women/Venus discourse is gaining popularity.
It is, supposedly, a way, through this "emotion-caring-not-able-to-read-a-map", rhetoric, to enslave women.
Is it?
The revolutionary program of Irigaray is not a program, it consists in ridiculing manners of thinking that she called "phallogocentric".
Where does this leads us? To the unthinkable differnence in women's ways of experiencing life — and to the possibility that women have been treated as the infantile, underdevelopped half of humanity.
Most feminists are against that: women have been denied rights, dignity, existence; now is not the time to provide a reason for such barbary; why not explain the Holocaust by telling how different the Jews are?
Not to get carried away, but it seems impossible today to talk about men / women differences as a basis for social transformation.
