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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-05-11 03:33 pm

[ SECRET POST #2321 ]


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(Anonymous) 2013-05-12 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Zie didn't say it wasn't feminist. Zie said it wasn't the point of feminism.

There are many feminists - and I'm one of them - who feel that politically and actively feminism as a movement should focus on systemic issues and leave the 'I choose choice' individualism rhetoric out of it. While having one's choices curtailed by an oppressive system is a feminist issue, choosing is not in and of itself a feminist act. The glorification of choice (while obfuscating the underlying mechanics)is far more about Western capitalism than about women's empowerment.

Choosing to be a sex worker is not a feminist act. Choosing to be a CEO is not a feminist act. Choosing to be an acrobet is not a feminist act. The reasons behind those decisions and the systems in which they are made are what we should be focussing upon. How empowerfulled the individual feels doing something because she wants to is a by-product, and replaces organised agitation, planning, defined goals, plans of action and theories of politics or social science with an inert cloud of emotivism that's never going to change the world.