In related news, I don’t much believe in feminism anymore.
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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