Girly girls have such big persecution complexes

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[–]Diversity_Racket 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

"We can be feminine for ourselves!"

Does this woman genuinely think she is wearing high heels for herself? High heels are purposely built to push your chest forward, stick your butt out, etc. -- high heels also create a host of issues like chronic pain, improper breathing, poor posture, etc. This isn't compatible with radical feminism. You're physically willing to suffer for... who? for what? why? And based on the comments, looks like the outfit is entirely designer. I don't see anything empowering in purchasing expensive, uncomfortable clothing.

All of this reminds me of the classic libfem retort: "It's MY choice. I wear it for myself!" If you peel back the layers a bit, you will see why it's not your choice at all.

To be clear: I'm not ragging on this woman, but I would like to see more people challenge themselves a bit as to the why - why they wear heels, why make up, etc. And I'm not immune to this either. It's a work in progress for many of us. I would just like to see more conversation around it instead of perpetuating the notion that these practices, created for the male gaze, are empowering. Especially in spaces where women call themselves radical feminists.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I want to make all of these arguments to defend the case for wearing makeup, etc., etc.. But then I realize that I don't have to defend shit. Neither do they.

Is this subforum about Gender Critical issues or strictly about being radfem?

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is this subforum about Gender Critical issues or strictly about being radfem?

"gender critical" comes from earlier radical feminist discourse, as I under stand it. Before all this transgender stuff craze. The idea in radical feminist discourse is that there is something called "gender" which exists to help men exploit women. Most femininity stuff would be considered part of that.

/r/GC was a radical feminist sub and did not focus strictly on problems caused for women by the transgender movement. Things that were not in alignment enough with radical feminism as understood by the mods were removed.

There are probably different sorts of schools of radical feminist thought (that are also still female-centered) so I don't know about that in general. But I think that's what "gender critical" means in this space.

[–]Diversity_Racket 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for clarifying - I noticed bit of non-radfem commentary in /r/GC so I wasn't sure if the sub was intended to be radfem or not.