Reply #93: No one is advocating favortism - [View All]

[Selwynn]

However certain indivduals feel particularly compelled to focus on an area of specific need. There is nothing wrong with that.

When my Son annouces "I am going to be a doctor." I am not going to say, "why don't you just be a good human being, why do you need to favor one profession over another? Are you looking down at other professions you elitist bastard??" :)

Like a doctory who is a doctor, but specializes in brain surgery, my field may be humanism, but my specialization is feminism. Nothing wrong with that. And I think coming out on the attack, and insinuating that people who identifiy with "feminism" in some form or another are elitist or misguided really does little but make me think about reasons why perhaps I would not want to be identified with the label "humanist." :)