BA IMMA GET YOU FOR BEING ALL DEEP THINKY AFTER MY JOB BLOCKED TUMBLR.
My touch-typed response to the latter (I already wrote on the former):
I think the point of feminism for affluent cisgender heterosexual white women has always meant getting power and influence on the level of their affluent cisgender heterosexual white male counterparts, with the caveat that what they do with their power should NOT be challenged. Lifestyles and opinions can be challenged because they’re largely cerebral. But the power should NEVER be questioned, lest they lose their centrality, access to affluence, and potential mates. They can’t challenge her dangerous positions without endangering the possibility that women like them will get that foothold. And it’s pathetic.
i feel like i see a lot of feminism focused on getting women to achieve certain goals, without questioning the validity, importance, or ethics of those goals.
(and, this whole thing reminds me of how the founding fathers kicked out tom paine after the revolution because as someone who did question the hierarchy they were familiar with, he was way too radical to be safe for people who wanted an identical power structure with themselves in charge.)
