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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I found myself much more on board with Snyder-Hall defence of choice feminism in the same publication. It doesn't say any choice a woman makes is feminist but that women can feminist whilst wearing make-up, being homemakers & living within gender roles.pic.twitter.com/lWNu4PGV2S
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I agree with that.
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Nor I. But then, I’m not a capital-F, highly politicized feminist. I think she has a point that if you do position yourself as the latter (if feminism is your overarching politico-moral ideology, as it is for many), then not judging other women is inconsistent & incoherent.
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But this depends on what you are judging them for. For wearing make-up & deciding to have another child when your career is already shaky? No. Mind your own business. Women can make both those choices as right for their lives whilst being utterly committed to gender equality.
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For promoting gender-specific modesty culture, forcing women to have babies or claiming women to be incapable of dealing with the public sphere unless trigger warnings and safe-spaces are provided & no man ever disagrees with them? That is anti-equality & must be criticised.
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