Conjectures on the Female Culture Question

Regardless of the groups concerned, under oppression ideological justifications of oppression take standard forms. All oppressed groups are attacked by claims of putative differences. The standard responses to these claims are all potentially politically harmful to the responding group. Cultural nationalist replies in particular are ways to cover up the political realities of oppression. Normally oppressed peoples base such replies on the fact that they do have an independent or autonomous culture. In addition, they are defined in standard ways by their oppressors, and share similar adaptation patterns. While the last two hold for women, we have no independent culture. Thus women may avoid cultural nationalism. But men do have an independent culture. So at present many feminists are trying to create a female culture, but they would be better advised to aim for power-bases instead.