Judgment of women seems to be the coordinated action that comes most instinctually to really everybody.
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I will never be able to square the amount of radical feminists who will swear up and down that women are oppressed “as a class” but believe they are better feminists for not wearing mascara. Kudos that you’re smarter and more pious than your class, I guess?
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One of the judgiest radical feminists I ever knew went on to say that detrans women were a cult. The lesson I take from that is that ppl who are egotistical enough to let their friends know what they’re judging them on are, in their heart of hearts, narcissists.
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I was once very publicly scolded by a radical feminist for my long hair. Which I enjoyed because of the assumption that short hair is the default for humans (despite being the hairstyle that requires intervention), and that only long hair involves the performance of gender
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Where do people get off? What happens in someone’s childhood that they think “it’s my role to educate people on the correct haircuts.”
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I JUST LOOK NICE IN IT OK
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Broadly similar to the "I have a friend of X characteristic so I can't be X-ist" but it's entirely possible to make an exception for someone while retaining your prejudice against the class. Some who are feminists have a "feminism" that's about exceptionalism while their attitude
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to other women is sexist and their model of what's good & valuable is a whole lot of emulation of men.
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I get the push against the beauty industry as I too think they’re profiting on making us feel like shit about ourselves, but taking a superior attitude toward other women &feminists bc of it seems counterintuitive. I wear makeup daily to work. Wld feel unprofessional if I didn’t.
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The urge to moralize others over minor details really differentiates the fundamentalists from the rest to me. Are you getting shit done, or are you chopping other good people down one-at-a-time?
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Yep. I do object to though to those that frame make up as some kind of 'empowering'. I recognise that I wear it because, within the patriarchy, it helps (get jobs/partner/feel good/whatever) but I don't beat myself up about that any more than I beat myself up about drinking wine
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