What is in it for women?

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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.

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

Exactly, that was me in my teens and early 20s. I honestly thought sexism had been "solved" and there was little to rebel against. Now that I've seen more of the world I know better, but young women in the young millenial/zoomer generation think it's only trans people that are victimized, that "cis" women are somehow on an equal level with men. In reality, men are as sexist as ever and hurt and rape and kill women the same as before, there's barely any women in CEO positions or in high political offices, our reproductive rights are being curtailed, we're expected to accept men as "real women" in our spaces... in other words, since the '70s, women's rights have been either at a standstill or steadily eroded, but pop/choice feminism is more "trendy" and makes it seem like things are fine.