Originally Posted by
Poeta Demonio
It's one thing to state that there exists an extremity in certain facets of the feminist movement, yet another all together to de-validate the movement given that historically at least it has responded to critical socio-political injustices and helped to fight against societal oppression. The ilk of people chosen to represent feminism in that video are the type of feminists that patriarchal society likes, because they are ill equipped to represent or even comprehend a rational existentialist perception of callas gender binaries, or roles within a given society and more to the point, it's easy to deconstruct their argument; in turn feeling validated in the belief that there exists no inequality because women have the vote, allowed to drive, and work. Yet are their wages the same as a man in the same role at a company? No. As for his argument against that notion, I've always worked labor/outdoors jobs and worked with many women doing 'hard jobs' and they genuinely don't get paid as much for the same job, as seen on wage slips. Are they still marginalized sexually? Yes.
To a degree however geography is a key element as women's rights may have been subject to modernization and positive change in many nations, yet in MANY MANY more we have either as bad conditions and freedoms for women as our societies were before feminist movements began to form or in a lot of cases worse as domestic abuse is simply considered part of a functioning household, with no legal protection.
I believe we must cease to be so secular in our thoughts, understanding that the problems we face are not localized to a city or a country, or even a continent, yet rather a global blight upon our species that reveal inherent flaws in our social perception. The status quo (the everyday) is forcefully upheld in our minds so anything that manifests into tradition becomes entirely allegorically neutral, not adhering to any particular moral extreme. For instance, slavery. Do you think the societies that kept and cultivated slave labor thought they were morally unjust? No. Why? Because they were conditioned to see those people as different to them, in fact subhuman, so they become talking horses essentially, plowing the land and singing. Though some may consider that an extreme example, it serves to show that inequality is usually only realized by the society inflicting those inequalities after the fact. Only ever in retrospect.
In conclusion, (haha) Fuck western rich white girl feminism. Absolutely yes to global efforts to make ALL of humanity equal. I feel people get way too caught up in the ambiguous word 'feminism' and often fail to recognize that words such as sexism, or racism, homophobia all come from the same wider superstructure that you can chose to call the patriarchy, or you could chose to call a superstructure of control born from a corrupted capitalist ideology that doesn't discriminate based on race or gender but rather monetary relevance within the economic hierarchy. In specific regards to feminism as a word it has become synonymous with radical feminism and therefore possibly needs a revamped name haha Switch it to post-humanism or something!