2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Not With Her, Still a Feminist [View all]zixiofix
(40 posts)No offense, but I would never take seriously anything a woman says who is trying to prevent the first viable female candidate for the presidency of this country from reaching the White House. I wont listen to your rationalizations for why you are doing what youre doing or why youre trying to hinder womens political progress in this country. So I certainly wouldnt believe you if you called yourself a feminist or claimed Hillary wasnt one.
And btw: the issue isnt whether Hillary is a feminist. Her feminist credentials are irrelevant. The issue has always been how women in this country will benefit literally and symbolically from finally having political representation in the highest office in this land. Lucky for you that it's a luxury to have female representation in government. For other women, it's the difference between life and death. From the life-threatening encroachment of the government into women's bodies to the stifling poverty single mothers are struggling to survive because they are paying over half of their wages to childcare so they can go to work, gender is most certainly a political issue. And, so long as women have less than 20% representation in our government, the personal will remain deeply political.
Can women who work to obstruct womens political progress expropriate the feminist label? The answer is unreservedly: no. And as far as Im concerned, self-hating women who are proud they are not voting for Hillary because of her gender are just victims of patriarchal ideologycolonized minds who unwittingly participate in their own oppression.