The 4B movement, which originated in South Korea, is described as a feminist movement against the patriarchy and has been gaining steam on social media in the U
How the hell is liberal feminists achieving (likely vulgar) sex-class consciousness moving rightward?! This is a tremendous opportunity for principled feminists to provide political education to radicalized women but instead everyone here would rather cede ground and let them become the feminist equivalent of Nazbols.
You are very generous and way better at assuming good faith than me if you assume that the majority of feminists partaking in this could be "educated by principled feminists." So many feminists just call themselves feminists as a basic gesture of being like, "yeah, women should have rights and all that," but they don't actually look deep into feminist theory, history, or anything of the sort, and many would not care to, in the same way some racists would not care to learn to actually be anti-racist. A lot of feminists, especially Western white ones, want patriarchy to simply stop inconveniencing them more than they actually want to end oppression as a whole.
How the hell is liberal feminists achieving (likely vulgar) sex-class consciousness moving rightward?! This is a tremendous opportunity for principled feminists to provide political education to radicalized women but instead everyone here would rather cede ground and let them become the feminist equivalent of Nazbols.
You are very generous and way better at assuming good faith than me if you assume that the majority of feminists partaking in this could be "educated by principled feminists." So many feminists just call themselves feminists as a basic gesture of being like, "yeah, women should have rights and all that," but they don't actually look deep into feminist theory, history, or anything of the sort, and many would not care to, in the same way some racists would not care to learn to actually be anti-racist. A lot of feminists, especially Western white ones, want patriarchy to simply stop inconveniencing them more than they actually want to end oppression as a whole.
I mean you're right. But that's an issue with all leftist movements in general.