"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."

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[–]Barber_Acrobatic 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I've no idea what's happening to me. I definitely see the sense in radical feminism but the absolute insanity of the left is making me wonder if I'm drifting right.

But then the right wing is it's own bag of fruit loops at times.

I feel like I'm just wandering around looking for where all the sane people have gone

[–]sisterinsomnia 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have not moved to the right but I feel quite alone on the left. If the distance between right and left is a straight line, then I have not moved along that line but sideways, to some different place.

[–]Spikygrasspod 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree. There is another axis, which is upward/arseward. There are those on the left AND the right who are much, much further arseward than I would like, and they betray women in their own ways specific to their left and right values.

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

liberal feminism is leftist. radical feminism is its own thing that conviently, no side supports.

[–]missdaisycan[S] 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Post menopause is a wonderful thing. Most women keep a healthy sex drive, but lose all patience for idiocies.

Men's shtick becomes redundant, and each new hell they cum up with, absurd.

Some days "f off" is my mantra.😂

[–]sisterinsomnia 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Some of that one might not be just age but how certain stages in women's lives are more likely to make them experience sexism and sex discrimination. Entering the labor force (from, say, college) is one such stage as colleges in the West are not openly sexist today, so many have little experience, outside sexual harassment and violence, of the other ways sexism crops up. Then having a child will intensify all that, make labor market discrimination more obvious and often results in women doing all the household chores and ending up earning less at work for all sorts of related reasons.

Some types of sexism also increase as women age, of course. Hiring discrimination rises with age etc.

[–]MenAreFragileBabies 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is exactly my experience. It's easy to not see the sexism that pervades everything when you're a young college student at the peak of your value to males. As soon as you start directly competing with them for money, you start to see things a lot more clearly. Then when they stop mooning over you, and you actually can't keep up with them anymore because you're totally overwhelmed by your kids at home-- sexism slaps you upside your head at that point.

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same . . . I don't feel my basic politics have changed, but it does feel like there's been a tectonic shift in politics all around me.

[–]PassionateIntensity 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I started out trying to nice and fair and treating the world like it was fair, but got crushed for it. I'm tired. I'm pissed off. I'm not having it anymore. I don't know if "radical" is the proper term.

[–]Calliope 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm very much with you here. "Tired" is more apt than "radicalized."

[–]twinpeakmayor 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

it's bc it takes so long to deprogram ourselves from patriarchal bullshit

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

This is it for me. It's taken me a long time to learn to trust my perceptions. Didn't help that one of my friends was a somewhat creepy SJW non-binary. He would, without the faintest glimmer of self-reflection, monologue at me about what feminism was, absolutely sure of himself that he was right about everything because he now had this massive group of people who would support him as long as he toes the line. I might write about it at some point, I learnt so much about how the cult thinks from him. But yeah, generally becoming more confident in myself is making me freer to say what I really think