So when you look at the constant push back that women receive when asking for equal rights, and the stagnation we have reached in those efforts, it is only natural that you see this class fatigue start to permeate cultural attitudes. And that was for the crime of asking to have a vote, not even for asking to be equal in all ways.
If you look up anti-suffragette propaganda, you see all these posters that claims that any woman who asks for the vote should be tortured. One of my most sobering classes was Demonization of Women During the Women's Right's Movement. I have a degree, years of study, and research to back up this post, so I am very confident in this statement that this is not something people want to hear or think about. A woman deciding to wear makeup to impress a man isn't anywhere close to the same as actively stifling discussion on a real problem by pretending to care about something else. That is not even fucking close to the same thing.įor starters, the problem with "All Lives Matter" is that it's bad faith as all get out. If you believe the end goal of feminism would be that no woman ever chooses to be a housewife or wear makeup, well, that's just flat out unrealistic.Ĭhoice feminism dilutes feminism the same way that saying all lives matter dilutes the civil right's movement. It's not feminist to say "Men are superior to women, women can't vote", but the fact that a woman could say that and get the appropriate response (inappropriate being praised for being a piece of shit or, say, getting harassed and hounded) would be feminism in action.Īt least, that's what I think. The end goal being that a woman can, is able to, and has the opportunity to make the same choices as a man, including the really fucking stupid ones, and getting the appropriate consequence. In most cases, it is making progress toward that goal.įeminism as a word has meaning, and that meaning is advocating social, political, and all other rights of women as those equal to those of men So I disagree that it is not-feminist in all cases. I am more persuaded by the arguments that exercising choice must be normalized as one of the key steps toward the true end-goal. Or for a less STEM-y description, it's the inherent paradox in expecting or requiring emotional and mental labor (suppress your current desires) from the very people who are supposed to be benefited by the end-goal. In this case, the conflicting values can be phrased in terms of achieving the end goal locally vs. Getting there is complex and there are multiple competing philosophies and conflicting values. Equality will be achieved exactly when the set of available choices is the same - with the understanding that "choice" is not just about what you do but the resulting worldstate. It's also true that feminism fundamentally is about choice, because in the end, choice is the key metric for "equality". For example, challenging the gender binary itself - as opposed to supporting the binary and asserting that the "two" must be equal. Modern feminism has expanded to cover many things, due to the recognition that the root causes are interwoven. Feminism today is not the same as feminism one century ago. However, it's also true that words change over time. And it's true that unexamined actions can unintentionally further problematic and harmful social structures. It's certainly true that not everything a woman does is automatically feminist just because it's a woman. I think the truth is more nuanced than what you're providing, although part of what you say is correct. I'm amused that almost the same text from the same person got (at time of writing) +40 on one comment and -15 on the other.
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