This is a movement that has repeatedly failed to stand for women’s rights where / when they are actually needed, disregarding material needs of all for the social status of a privileged few.
Sorry, all 5 radfems mad online don’t make up for half a hundred orgs and nearly every feminist public figure having completely lost their ability to speak cogently regarding the issues that actually face modern women.
Meanwhile even the rads struggle to grapple with biological reality outside of trans issues - at which point even they boil literally everything down to “societal pressure” and “power”, which is simply not sufficient to explain gender relations or prescribe a path forward
Modern feminism is lady bosses and yas queens and pussyhats, busy celebrating the first hijabi whatever-the-hell, nothing resembling a serious movement that attempts to be more than a bumper sticker on some mid-level manager’s brand new Tesla.
I mean at some point you have to judge a movement not by the achievements of better, harder women who are long gone, but the braindead corpse walking around HR departments today.
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Reducing what is undoubtedly the most vital relation for the most vulnerable, precious humans - the crux of what we call "family" - to merely a physical act, a medical event...
Woke terminology is a pageant of grotesquerie.
Unique in its clinical ugliness, oppressive joylessness, dehumanization... routinely eschewing the essence of a thing for the sake of an inflexible and literal-minded political correctness...
I'm starting to feel that the anti-meritocracy bent among elites has far more to do with white resentment of asians than with any compassion towards underrepresented minorities.
It is not yet cool to be too open about this. I give it <2 years for explicitly anti-asian sentiment to become vogue.
I did not make this connection before I looked into the knee-capping of gifted high schools across the nation.
Almost every time the meritocratic system leads to high levels of asians, sometimes majority asians. The new anti- meritocratic replacement systems *purport* to ...1/2
The story is complex and unique (although the resolution a bit inexplicable). I wish more movies covered the perspective shown in Cuties. The initial marketing definitely did not represent the movie accurately. 1
However, multiple dance scenes throughout the movie really were gratuitous. I was deeply uncomfortable watching them (and indeed looked away).
I understand the disgust around these scenes, and think the many justifications of them are weak. 2