#locatedness

representational weight

'Feminism' is not the name of some new doctrine, imported into controversies for no good reason. That name stands for the steady, systematic correction of an ancient and very damaging bias. Its opposite, which may be called virism, had always reigned unnoticed. Correcting it is not a single, simple move. It demands different emphasis in different places because the bias has worked unevenly. Like other corrections, feminism might hope in the end to become unnecessary and so to put itself out of business. But that end is still a long way off.