I am critical of feminism, as I'm sure you've noticed, and I don't have much patience for 'cultural conditioning/brainwashing' arguments. I think 'women are being made to feel X and it must be stopped' approaches often become authoritarian and deny women responsibility & agency.
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Because they seem to imply that women cannot evaluate and choose whether or not to comply with common social norms - eg beauty norms, motherhood tropes, gender roles. This does not mean I think these things don't exist or that I have nothing at all to say about them.
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I have a lot to say about all of them. Well, not so much beauty norms because I think telling people what they should find attractive is probably pointless (but Jesus Christ, young women, what the hell are you doing with your eyebrows?!)
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I don't find it remotely surprising that men are more attracted to slim women who favour a feminine appearance. I enjoyed being that for most of my life & intend to be slim again. I myself have always been attracted to slim men & women who favour a masculine appearance.
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Policing other people's attractions is futile and presumptuous. I have a lot more to say about gender roles but none of this is authoritarian. I don't think stereotypical ones need to be banned from public view or judged as a serious moral failing in individuals who choose them
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Because individuality and choice are primary to me. Apparently, this makes me a neo-liberal or 'choice feminist' and this is bad & means I don't understand how much women's choices are constrained by culture. Well, no, I don't.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I wouldn’t call that ‘choice feminism’. According to the latter ideology, whatever choice a woman makes is automatically feminist & empowering to her as a woman.
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Women have far more agency than some like to claim, & we do make choices. Sometimes we make choices in line with societal expectations, sometimes we don’t; it does not follow that any choice made by a woman is inherently empowering (as choice feminists claim).
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Well, I don't think I'm a feminist at all, obviously. Also, I'm not sure how many choice feminists do think that or how much of it is a straw man. Normally comes down to sex-work, make-up & motherhood. I'm reading about it at the moment.
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I’d say it’s about more than career versus motherhood, & would highly recommend Michaele L. Ferguson on the topic …
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That's who I've got. 'Choice Feminism and the Fear of Politics' and also the counterview by Snyder-Hall.
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Replying to @StephanieLahey @HPluckrose
(I don’t think it’s a strawman, but then I would call you a feminist, as much as you balk at the term. I refuse to cede it to the radical relativists).
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