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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Replying to @HPluckrose
I’d say it’s about more than career versus motherhood, & would highly recommend Michaele L. Ferguson on the topic …
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Replying to @StephanieLahey @HPluckrose
Linda Hirshman coined the term “choice feminism” in 2005 in ref to the view that feminism had liberated women to make whatever choices they pleased, writing “It all count[s] as ‘feminist’ as long as [a woman] *chose* it”.
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Replying to @StephanieLahey @HPluckrose
(which is a ridiculous position). Ferguson has good summaries and critiques.
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Replying to @StephanieLahey
I don't agree with her argument at all. She blames liberalism for women making their own choices and says that because the personal is political, women should judge each others life choices.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I wouldn’t entirely agree with that assessment; I’d say she’s more pointing to an incoherence in certain strains of feminism. How one understands ‘feminism’ (an increasingly fraught discussion itself) likely plays a rôle here.
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Replying to @StephanieLahey
I can't support this:pic.twitter.com/3IgSkX2OqL
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @StephanieLahey
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
I agree with you on that. I just don’t think it’s the point she was aiming to make.
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We've read it very differently, then, I think because I was sure it was.
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