"The importance of protecting women’s right to choose in all aspects of her life is a key part of any feminist movement I support. "
"But regardless, a failure to consistently and stridently fight for the rights of women who are actually and obviously struggling within patriarchal societies makes it extra hard to get the more nuanced conc…
"The importance of protecting women’s right to choose in all aspects of her life is a key part of any feminist movement I support. "
"But regardless, a failure to consistently and stridently fight for the rights of women who are actually and obviously struggling within patriarchal societies makes it extra hard to get the more nuanced concerns about sexism as it exists in the west taken seriously."
Ok, but given that a society (the Western European world) where women have full political power is less concerned with the interests of the most oppressed women; than it was when only male sexists had the vote --- what gives? When someone mentions the link between Islam and FGM in class it's not the male chauvinist that screams bloody murder, but a woman who lived under what is close to the most formally feminist society anywhere.
Given that this experiment has been run in basically every western country, and that feminists always choose to support the oppression of women; don't you feel a little like a 1980s Soviet workers advocate at this point? Doesn't it feel strange that, in light of such terrible conditions in the factories/muslim world you can only get a hearing by emphasizing how bad it is for communism/feminism's image ("extra hard to get the more nuanced concerns about sexism as it exists in the west taken seriously.").
"The importance of protecting women’s right to choose in all aspects of her life is a key part of any feminist movement I support. "
"But regardless, a failure to consistently and stridently fight for the rights of women who are actually and obviously struggling within patriarchal societies makes it extra hard to get the more nuanced concerns about sexism as it exists in the west taken seriously."
Ok, but given that a society (the Western European world) where women have full political power is less concerned with the interests of the most oppressed women; than it was when only male sexists had the vote --- what gives? When someone mentions the link between Islam and FGM in class it's not the male chauvinist that screams bloody murder, but a woman who lived under what is close to the most formally feminist society anywhere.
Given that this experiment has been run in basically every western country, and that feminists always choose to support the oppression of women; don't you feel a little like a 1980s Soviet workers advocate at this point? Doesn't it feel strange that, in light of such terrible conditions in the factories/muslim world you can only get a hearing by emphasizing how bad it is for communism/feminism's image ("extra hard to get the more nuanced concerns about sexism as it exists in the west taken seriously.").