I do have a suggestion you can ignore, but this is for young feminists online and that is to try, as best as you can, to not concoct the emotional narrative of people you don't have the faintest idea of. it's not that you can't speak to the generalized likelihood of what women and girls feel in this or that situation, but when we're talking about a specific woman in a specific situation, whether it's from a news article or a screenshot of a social media post...it's best not to assume things like "she was probably horrified" or "I'm sure she feels traumatized" or even "she must have hated this" or "it probably feels like a betrayal when..." yadda yadda. Maybe you're right, and probably are, but you could be wrong. And when getting to the root of why women are oppressed, it kinda doesn't always matter what each woman "feels" about given situations. There are plenty of women who will refused to accept the facts of their rape count as rape, as an example. Well, I don't really see the point of demanding them to change their mind on that, as that is prioritizing my politics over their lived experiences. Maybe they'll come around on their own, and maybe they won't, and in any case you can still speak intelligently to it. If you want another example: there are plenty of surrogates who will be pissed the fuck off if you tell them they must have felt some certain way during their pregnancy, labor, and the child hand off. And why shouldn't they, you don't know what's in their head. You do not know better than them about their own feelings full stop. It doesn't matter! their feelings one way or the other isn't the reason why surrogacy is an issue to feminists. Women will feel a multitude of ways about every single thing under the sun. We're a diverse group. Try to speak towards facts, and avoid creating unwarranted narratives of real people based on assumptions as much as you can.
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