Feminism - in 2024 - continues to illicit hostile, irrational, and, sadly, violent responses from detractors. Acknowledging their influence on every industry on Earth, women are moving forward with their ambition. There will be no immediate bowing and demure curtsies to the upright mammal who can lift heavy things anymore. The female class has always known that they are fit for substantive, nuanced, roles in society.
It was everyone else that had to download a open-thought program to get on their wavelength. The bugs and crashes in the new software will always be present but women aren’t waiting for tech support. They are evolving past society casting them as damsels in distress begging to be saved by actually solving their own problems.
This isn’t popular.
No movement truly is. Especially when it interrupts traditions. In America, precisely, tradition covers dark parts of the country’s very creation. Its present. Its future. Tradition warps people and agendas.
This topic touches on dating and society as a whole. It fascinates me because a cheerleading section exists for everything. Yes, I used “cheerleading” for a specific reason. I won’t give you all the answers to the quiz.
You should read to be challenged. An essay, book, poem, etc., should move you emotionally, physically and mentally. There should be several, ongoing, and lifelong episodes where a piece you read engages something within you.
Monoliths of ideologies, nationalities of people, gender, theology, etc., exist on the surface. Unquestionably. Yet, it’s in the fine details where branches of a monolith stand away from the tribe and develop their own subtext. For example, all Black people in America don’t vote for democrats. There are Blacks aligned with the GOP even though it is clear the party is against their progression as fellow Americans, and humans.
Women don’t connect themselves to the causes of other women just because…they’re all women. Take the women who passionately agree that Roe v. Wade should’ve crumbled. Even though it endangers their mothers, aunts, daughters, nieces, cousins, friends, colleagues…and themselves. Many feel that it was abhorrent law to begin with. Abortion access, which is healthcare, pure and simple, has millions of women who support it - as it has women that cheered when the landmark law disintegrated. Read about Women’s Suffrage and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Certain women were denied active roles in the movement by their female counterparts and didn’t receive their voting rights until decades later, in 1965.
The monolith is reality and mirage.
Feminism is buckling in the same way. Here, we’re using the smaller stakes of dating. Maybe the stakes are far larger. Maybe. On this subject, women are swinging the hammer at the feminist structure.
Women are targeting other women for having the nerve to be ambitious. Opinionated. Independent. For ignoring the worn belief that their sole value derives from what they mean to, or what they can do, for men.
For wanting to take their financial futures into their own hands aware that their fellow women have been specifically blocked from doing so from men in the same manner that white racism’s purpose is to suffocate any tangible progress from Indigenous and Black people worldwide.
Online personalities with channels sprouting daily are tossing dynamite in the direction of the “modern woman” with scorn, sarcasm, innuendo, and blatant mockery.
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