
"Gynocentrism and its origins"
MANN admins received a note from the creator of this site: http://gynocentrism.com/. I started reading but admit haven't finished the current home page essay "Christine de Pizan: the first gender warrior" by one Diana Davison. But so far, it looks pretty interesting, though I confess I don't have her background in the source material myself to make an informed opinion. Still, I hope others might and comment. Excerpt:
'A long time ago (15th century) in a land not too far away (France) a protofeminist named Christine de Pizan initiated a public debate later named La Querelle de la Rose. Simone de Beauvoir honours Pizan as the first woman to “take up her pen in defence of her sex”[1] but Christine was not fighting for new rights, she was strictly defending the chivalry-based gynocentric culture that she saw crumbling away before her eyes.
Though some feminists deny Christine’s status as a member of the gang, she did seem to have set the standard for how women change the public narrative; lies, elitism, deception and manipulation of history bordering on fraud.
Like all feminists who followed in her footprints, she set a Machiavellian example. The end justifies the means and, while you re-write “herstory”, make sure to claim you are meek and helpless the whole time.'
The "About" page for the site is here.
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