But when the media over-indexes on uninformed outrage and lumps feminists and the idea of feminism in with the crowd, it’s ultimately unhelpful, and adds to the narrative of feminists as chiding killjoys, confused about their own politics, too enamored with pop culture to look at the real issues, angry at everything, informed about nothing that mat... See more

and focuses only on the needs of a narrow subset of already privileged women; a version of feminism that is toothless and apolitical and fails to challenge the injustice of existing power structures, aiming only to insert women at the top of them. This type of feminism, commonly referred to as neoliberal feminism, tends to overlook the aspects of f

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the focus on power seems to have come with a corresponding reluctance to focus on those perceived as powerless.

Why we sacrifice young girls Mary Harrington 9.19.2023