"The personal is political" was a feminist slogan and now is being used to justify "writing about oneself and then turning these observations about one's narrow social circle into a party platform or a tax policy ."
As commenter jeff_d says:
The danger, I think, is in carrying this so far that one's political perspective is narrowed by a fixation on one's personal experiences. In every election cycle, it seems we hear about women's issues, gay issues, or whatever. This reinforces a balkanized approach to political participation that I don't think is healthy.Is this being enhanced by blogging as well as main stream media (MSM)? When anyone can influence issues by blogging about it, telling their own story, isn't there a danger of creating a political system of the one instead of the many?
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