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#it’s easy to use it as a throwaway term nowadays because the movement SEEMS worthless but ?? it’s a bad habit to mislabel the rhetoric
pussy-ache · 2 years
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i feel like a lot of choice feminists hate reading feminist theory because many of them are gen z and cannot stand reading something that does not agree with their own personal philosophy every step of the way, on every page
i remember asking a choicefem as she was about to block me what exactly about mary daly did she have a problem with?
was she not ready for such HEAVY separatist themes? did she agree with alice echols that so named “cultural feminism” wasn’t really the way to go so it just wasn’t her vibe?
she admitted she never made it past the first chapter. she simply went to class the next day and her and her friends joined in and called her professor a TERF for assigning second wave theory (completely missing the part where mary daly herself was a controversial figure in the movement and that even radical feminists criticize some of her body of work, while accepting other facets that are pretty solid…)
she truly believes we’re a monolith. that no second wave writer had anything different to say from the next, and that every single one is transphobic.
i never found out what happened to her professor but i wouldn’t be surprised if she was forced to remove the book and/or got suspended because of her students perpetual and purposeful dedication to ignorance and selfishness
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