Pfffffffffffffffffffffft... I think if most of them had a clearer picture of your personal life, they'd think wearing makeup and keeping house would be the least of your transgressions.
The extreme view of "Everything a woman does is empowering because it was her choice to do so!" has its problems in a society where there is so much pressure and programming that goes into us, but so many self-proclaimed radical feminists seem more interested in reworking patriarchy so that they're on top than actually tearing it down.
It's not worth the spoons for me to address that kind of thinking, especially since the people who harbor it would dismiss anything I said if they had any idea what my personal life is like.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ninetydegrees
no subject
on 2010-02-03 09:19 pm (UTC)The extreme view of "Everything a woman does is empowering because it was her choice to do so!" has its problems in a society where there is so much pressure and programming that goes into us, but so many self-proclaimed radical feminists seem more interested in reworking patriarchy so that they're on top than actually tearing it down.
It's not worth the spoons for me to address that kind of thinking, especially since the people who harbor it would dismiss anything I said if they had any idea what my personal life is like.