I think a large part of the very real issues in hetero relationships do come from patriarchy. But there is now a life-style genre of gender grievance and content. Heteropessimism sells and there is engagement from women who are tired of men, men who are tired of women, and either who is tired of the discussion.
But it generates ad revenue.
The issues are very real, and we benefit from learning more and engaging with feminist theory and praxis. But at some point we have to stop engaging and meet people where they’re at.
Like even if you engage with a lot of theory sharing a great deal of what you learned could be called “performative.” Get out of the doom scrolling cycles and engage with women in your community.
From the article:
Not the feminism aimed at merely—in the words of psychology professor Darby Saxbe—"emulating men and outcompeting them on the terrain they have constructed.” Not the feminism the late bell hooks called “trickle-down theory: the [flawed] assumption that having more women at the top of corporate hierarchies would make the work world better for all women, including women on the bottom.”
No, the feminism that fights for a society where everyone of all genders has more time and energy to care about people outside of work.
Reject Pop/Girlboss Feminism embrace Gender Liberation!
Isn’t that egalitarianism?
It feels like it’s repackaging feminism into something it is not.
You are 10 years late into the “repackaging”. At some point you need to admit that no, it’s about equality.
Is there an accepted definition for feminism or is it a case of “we love this thing so everything good with the world is feminism”? I mean is Christmas feminism? People get together and care for their fellow people? Is X factor feminism? Everyone gets around a TV set and cares for their favourite acts.
I appreciate those 2 points are ridiculous and intentionally so. The point being definitions are important. If you cannot define something, its everything and nothing all at once. To many, feminism seems to come across a little cultish and becomes very easy for folk to highlight examples that ridicule it. Before long, no one would admit they are or support it. That’s the real danger.
To be fully clear, I think feminism is very important and is needed to resolve many ills in this world, but the way it’s used leaves absolutely confusion. I don’t think anyone outside online activists understand it.
Ugh lost my first version of this comment so sorry if this is terse.
Asking for one definition of feminism is nonsense. Some words have multiple definitions that is simply the reality of language. You don’t need a unifying definition of landscape that includes both a natural view and the aspect ratio or printing format. Feminism is a school of critical thought, a field of academic study, and a group of different political movements that largely originated in the first.
I think laypeople are confused about feminism in part because they have been misled to be confused about feminism by conservatives, and in part because feminism is a movement that has had multiple generations of thought.
At its core, I would say that feminism is the idea that by examining society through the lens of gendered interactions we can change those interactions to make society a more just and fair place, but definitions of feminism are a matter of academic debate.
The cure for male loneliness is a better economy, as in improving their material conditions. not ideology.
What if I told you that feminism is part of a better economy?
reading bell hooks doesn’t make people’s paychecks get bigger. more competition and opportunity for jobs and job growth does.
It sounds like you understand.
No it isnt. Community existed before capitalism and will exist after, too.
men aren’t allowed into communities unless they economically benefit that community.
please go join a community, stand around, do nothing productive, and see how welcome you are there.
