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Yeah - it seems more strange thing are getting folded into feminism. I cannot really point the exact problem but my wife feels that like the feminism is not any

• Spivak 4y ago
  There is broad overlap between feminists and democrats but you’re conflating issues that affect women — sex positivity, destigmatizing sex work, trying to undo “purity culture”, and fighting for the rights of trans women — and the unrelated issues that many feminists are also involved in because they’re also democrats — the class struggle, public services, social safety nets. It’s hard to untangle those two things because people care a whole heck of a lot about lots of political issues and it’s not too often you see “how about side by side with a friend” happen in real life all that often, especially since abortion rights is such a fundamental feminist issue that neatly divides D/R. The easiest way to understand this is that for every victory the movement gets to start tackling issues further up Maslow’s hierarchy of needs where the top three are way more nuanced than “equal pay for equal work.”