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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.
My gender-pronouns are: They/them/their.
I am: 26 years old, a feminist, liberal, an atheist, an omnivore, and an ISFJ.
The Feminist: Intersectional, body positive, pro-choice, and sex positive.
My privileged identities include: Female assigned at birth (trans* privilege), white, able-bodied, allistic (?), dyadic, monogamous.
My non-privileged/oppressed identities include: Gender-fluid, fat, gray-a, neuroatypical, and gay.
I have: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.
I like: Pets & animals, animal welfare, pet care & pet care education, ~*SCIENCE!*~, anatomy & physiology, roleplaying, anime/manga, computer & video games, rock & metal music.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Oh dear…
Feminism is about WOMEN’S RIGHTS. Why must we take the burden of ALL social justice, thus not fulfilling our main goal? My feminism will be about women’s rights, or it will be bullshit. There’s an anti-racism movement, there’s a LGBT movement, there’s a vegetarian/vegan/animal rights/environmental rights movement, and these movements do not include anything about women’s rights, so why must feminism accomodate all of them to not be deemed “useless”?
WHY ARE WE DEVIATING FROM OUR MAIN OBJECTIVES? I understand women may be oppressed by their race and sexual orientation and many other things, BUT, feminism is designed to grant them political and social equality based on their sex, and does not need to be perfect in every other way. I’m so sick of the political correctness, the constant “omgz you’re so transphobic”, the “my feminism will be intersectional” and the “omg, if we don’t involved this marginalised group, and that one, and that one and that one and all of them, feminism can’t exist!!!!!!!!”
Let me reiterate. FEMINISM IS ABOUT WOMEN. It must stay this way to be effective and must not get caught up with trans politics and other issues, because they have their own platforms in which you can be active. We must bring back radical feminism. We’re all too fucking afraid to offend someone by being politically incorrect to make a global change. The only case in which this is acceptable is when one’s dealing with abuse and rape victims, in which it is absolutely disgusting to trigger someone.
Hey look everyone.
It’s like the quintessential STFU Fauxminists post.
Oh hey, who knew that women faced different oppressions based on their race, class, sexuality, etc? Apparently not OP. My feminism will be intersectional or it will not exist because not all women are the same. All women experience sexism but they experience it in different ways based on their other identities. STFU, OP.
OP…
Every woman is different…and a lot of “women’s issues” tend to apply to many other kinds of people. So…sorry but we can’t really put feminism into that neat little box you’re describing. I know it’d be a whole lot easier if we could, but we can’t. You might think that “ugh, such a pain in the ass, women have to fight for EVERYBODY” and I mean, I understand that feeling. But…we’re not going to get anywhere excluding people. We have to acknowledge that the fight for rights is about choice and individuality. Not just “being women”…which is something that has a different definition for every person out there. It’s also really hard for me to understand how you could make your argument and not include trans? They’re women too…
word, indeed.
