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> ultimately suffers from the same issues that every absolute social ideology does: shoehorning events and disciplines into its predetermined framework I think
by maze-le 11y ago
> ultimately suffers from the same issues that every absolute social ideology does: shoehorning events and disciplines into its predetermined framework
I think that is a very big part of the problem. Feminism was once an emancipatory movement, that eveolved into an ideology. With all the bad sideeffects ideologies bear with them. I genrally do agree on what you call 'the feminist principle', while I strongly denounce the political corsett wich it evolved into.
- Karunamon 11y agoMy theory is that once you get a sufficiently outraged group of people on a righteous crusade (historically, we've treated women pretty badly in the USA), that righteous outrage does not dissipate once the primary causes of that outrage have been addressed. As a result, you get more and more minute nonsense being shoveled into the ideology (example: the "manspreading" idiocy) that's attacked just as vigorously as actual things that cause actual problems, like discrimination and human rights. Then, the movement sufficiently de-legitimized due to this, more and more unaffiliated people turn against it, and some of their gains are lost.