I'm just hearing the phrase "self care" used as a trend/meme/"thing" (I thought it was just an ordinary phrase). What's it about? ELI5
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seems that it is, bc women seem to need (or think they need) self-care bc they tend to "give" too much to others even at a personal cost
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IMO main problem is the rhetoric wants to have it all. self-care bc you deserve it, and also bc instrumentally valuable
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but those values only overlap partially when it comes to deciding how to actually care for yourself.
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in practice—it functions as an escape hatch to use in response to overzealous calls to action; useful because it can’t be deemed bourgeois.
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functions as a challenge– “if you want to argue my nonaction is complicity, you gotta show it’s required even at cost of my mental health.”
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