well I guess that was the whole scandal with Steinem claiming that some of these women were just Bernie supporters to find men. Kinda like the equivalent of women who went to the university in the old days to find a husband. Steinem's claim was sexist, but nonetheless true. There will always be a certain class of men who praise women for being like men (watching football for example) or caring about what men care about (Sanders or substitute "policy over gender"
when doing so either implicitly traumatizes the woman or the group they belong to. Women are kept out of football and relegated to the sidelines as cheerleaders, but many women take pride in loving a sport that bars them from participating. And likewise there is always a woman that internalizes their oppression to such a degree that they no longer realize they are actually harming a group through the personal choices they make, not just themselves. When women do not vote monolithically, our entire group suffers.
In African American culture, there is a word for a "house n*gro" who collaborates with the master. They are always referred to as an Uncle Tom. An Uncle Tom is someone whose individual choices work to make dominance and hegemony of the master more palatable to the oppressed. And they are always, always seen for what they are and always called out for their treachery by the whole community.
When a woman act's like an Uncle Tom, we're not allowed to call her out for it and instead we're upbraided for denying another woman her right to "choose." Or for denying that there are multiple "feminisms", not just feminism.
It is . . .to use a word, completely and utterly absurd.
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