this is everyone's casual reminder that I am the kind of feminist who knows that there are axes of marginalization besides sexism which can be used to illuminate hypocrisy that relies on the idea of a "default womanhood" that is in reality totally inaccessible to huge numbers of women. for example, class can be a useful critique of the claims that misogynists make about "traditional" families simply by pointing out that those family values are completely inaccessible to everyone in the working class, despite their womanhood.
this is not fucking brain surgery. it's simple. but we need to talk about feminism and intersectionality more often if the only feminist takes we're talking about on the internet are showing up in the context of radfems who refuse to acknowledge that marginalization is not a binary game of "spot who gets to complain about injustice and who doesn't", but rather a series of social currents and distribution of power that nevertheless does not prevent all individual marginalized people from figuring out ways of achieving personal power and success.
(seriously this scene is a great metaphor. it's like y'all never comprehended this movie from my specific childhood for this scene about taking the unfair weight of socially structured power and using it to achieve your ends by manipulating where the weight hangs. definitely a deliberate metaphor they were making on purpose.)
if you need that shit in smaller words Feather already wrote it out in the notes of that fucking post, I'm just tired of dealing with radfem notes in the tags because again: stupid. stupid!
in this I follow in the fine tradition of Alice Duer Miller, who was much more scathing in her wit, and who had a contemporary critique of anti-suffragist women that hits just about identical notes to that Coontz quote which I'm going to dig out in a second.
