As long as you can make a choice it is liberation. "Freedom is the capacity to make choices, oppression the inability to make choices".
It's basically diluting the politics from feminism and emphasizing choice over structural change. It sidesteps the fact that a liberty to make personal choices is in a privilege and needs structural change. That "choosing" to be a housewife is not a possible option for most people for example. As well that people who aren't white nor/or cis nor/or straight do often miss access to the same infrastructure in order to get to the same place as their cis/straight/white counterparts.
I don't know if I worded this well, but I tried my best.
I actually agree that one's quality of freedom can be equated to the array of choice available to them. But it logically follows, quite obviously IMO, that in order to increase freedom for others you must help open up access to choices for them. If they don't do that... Then what do they do?
Ok, but the best feminists are radical feminist that are sex work and trans inclusive. I don't like people lumping terfs with radical feminist. Terfs are neither radical nor feminist
While radfem is literally a portmanteau of radical feminist, it's a colonized term that refers specifically to certain second wave tendencies that are notorious today for being exclusionary.
too bad they have basically taken over and co-opted the term RadFem along with misandrists, you technically could still use it, but you’d get a few side eyes cus that is what most think of RadFems as…
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Holy shit that's a horrible font.
It's the font the person thinking that deserves
this font is hard to read :o
wth is a choice feminist?
As long as you can make a choice it is liberation. "Freedom is the capacity to make choices, oppression the inability to make choices".
It's basically diluting the politics from feminism and emphasizing choice over structural change. It sidesteps the fact that a liberty to make personal choices is in a privilege and needs structural change. That "choosing" to be a housewife is not a possible option for most people for example. As well that people who aren't white nor/or cis nor/or straight do often miss access to the same infrastructure in order to get to the same place as their cis/straight/white counterparts.
I don't know if I worded this well, but I tried my best.
I actually agree that one's quality of freedom can be equated to the array of choice available to them. But it logically follows, quite obviously IMO, that in order to increase freedom for others you must help open up access to choices for them. If they don't do that... Then what do they do?
What does this mean? Do I need to ask a premium subscription woman to find out?
I am so confused, you dislike all feminists?
Ok, but the best feminists are radical feminist that are sex work and trans inclusive. I don't like people lumping terfs with radical feminist. Terfs are neither radical nor feminist
It’s such bullshit… RadFem should clearly only refer to feminists that can at least pull off a kickflip.
agreed, unfortunately who can’t even skate co-opted it
The libertarian example is a great analogy.
While radfem is literally a portmanteau of radical feminist, it's a colonized term that refers specifically to certain second wave tendencies that are notorious today for being exclusionary.
too bad they have basically taken over and co-opted the term RadFem along with misandrists, you technically could still use it, but you’d get a few side eyes cus that is what most think of RadFems as…
It's bait
terfs, swerfs and misandrists have basically taken over the term “RadFem”, if you are any of those, gtfo off my posts
I don't know. Seems like this is just a way to lump people who are not feminist in with feminists. I would reject this term as propaganda.
I only got to the word libfems, got stuck thinking about what kind of library libfems could be.