Recentering women in feminism is the only way to go. If men have problems atp they could easily create a political and social movement to fix that shit themselves but you notice how they blame women and not other men. Women have always been the focus in my politics, especially Black women and Especially ESPECIALLY Black transgender women.
Also we've gotta go back to being mean. The bimbo movement or whatever was dumb. Unironic girlboss is stupid. Y'all gotta realize that playing into a gender role will never free you from or destroy the patriarchy. Makeup does more harm than good, the fashion industry and it's expectations for the ideal woman are extremely harmful, the body positivity movement was still based in a desire to be attractive rather than a demand that we not even be defined by racist, sexist, etc standards of beauty in the first place.
Like I'm sorry but insisting feminism as an ideology is about ~gender equality~ and not the specific patriarchal oppression that women of all kinds go through is partly what got us into this mess. Defanged bc some of y'all were too worried about men's opinions. Defanged because you couldn't let go of the comfort of the patriarchy. Defanged because you couldn't let go of white supremacy and transphobia. Defanged because you liked the aesthetic of feminism more than the action of it and THAT is because you let capitalism take feminism and sell it back to you as a cutesy pink logo with some tshirts and shades.
We're in a massive conservative reactionary swing on all fronts right now. I know obv not all feminists are giving into the pressure to be political in name only while still upholding legiterately everything feminism is meant to be against, but this is scary and frustrating.
when this post first blew up i had people calling me a t3rf and i imagine it was specifically because i said makeup does more harm than good (that is one of the things people tried to argue w me most about).
the only correction/clarification im making about this post is that the body positivity movement was started by fat activists and was about radical acceptance of the body in all its forms. which would include trans women, disabled women, etc. but guess what happened to that movement? lots of libfems + capitalism + other structures got their hands on it and made it "you're hot i prommy 🥺 now buy our razor".
but otherwise everything else on this still stands. the mainstream feminism we're being presented, offered, force-fed, etc is a defanged and utterly useless political aesthetic that accomplishes nothing more than decentering women of ALL KINDS and making patriarchy and our/women's own oppression palatable to us/them. and guess what happens after that
