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[–]sisterinsomnia 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My own theory about some of this (in addition to the need to be kind and inclusive) is that the successes of the second wave of feminism make sexism and misogyny less obvious to young women who are in college, say, because colleges were fixed in the 70s and 80s. There is sexual violence and online sexism but not yet any gendered division of labor at home or labor market discrimination or differential work load when it comes to children and sick relatives and so on, and the lack of women higher up in the hierarchies is not visible at that age point. So many young women think the problems have been sorted and that now the problem is to incorporate trans women.

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

Starting a family definitely made a HUGE difference for me in how I felt about feminism and women's issues. That's when it becomes really obvious that biological sex does matter.