YEAH. Like Just Because You Reject One Extreme Doesn't Mean You Follow Another. It Reminds Me Of One

YEAH. Like just because you reject one extreme doesn't mean you follow another. It reminds me of one post going "Boys are so academic core and girls are cottage core UwU" like BRO. What are you doing? The entire point of this is NOT putting people in boxes.

I have like this half formed idea that young women who are on the surface politically liberal, have also fallen into conservative thought pipelines, that are more subtle because they aren't from "RACIST GAMER PODCAST" and are instead from Emily on tiktok who is just recommending a lip gloss or whatever.

But it's similar. Like they use liberalisms to justify modesty, and to be anti porn and sex work, and to be pro makeup and refuse to unpack the anti feminist nature of the beauty industry. Like a lot of the things they use liberalisms to call "problematic" are right in line with more conservative beliefs.

Things like "girl dinner" "I'm just a girl" "demure and mindful" all of these are gender essentialist and infantalising to women and in line with a more conservative approach to femininity.

Which is scary because they are a lot closer to falling further into conservative ideas. They don't even have to own the identity of conservative to push the broader cultural agenda.

We see this in discourse around sex and sexuality a lot from young women.

In any case, we need serious education on the actual philosophies of feminism, and to push back against anyone pushing ideas of cultural modesty. Modesty is not a virtue, it's oppressive "oh but I just like it this way" have you unpacked why that is?

Not to mention it's bringing on a new wave of body image issues.

TERFS DNI this post is about all women