The Great Feminist Exhaustion
Smashing the girlboss myths: how women are doing ambition on their own terms
Emma Beddingtontheguardian.com
Modern feminist sensibility is based on cognitive distortions depressed people have
What I once believed thanks to feminism and how it maps to cognitive distortions (yes, these messages are in the zeitgeist)
Others are responsible for my feelings: emotional reasoning and mind-reading.
I have no control over what happens to me: fortune telling, overgen
The PMC feminist rhetorical fortress
Why do women treat each other badly? > patriarchy
Why can’t women see their own bad behavior toward each other? —> internalized misogyny
Why can’t they see past internalized misogyny? —> patriarchy
But men don’t control women —> systemic patriarchy, no female president
But a female president shouldn’t be
... See moreThis process directs anti-patriarchal, feminist sentiment into the narrow channel of the mirror, rather than outwards, towards communal, longer-term feminist goals. The soft smiles and high-pitched giggles are admittedly alluring after the disappointments of earlier feminist movements, but the ecstasy of idiocy reveals a darker sentiment than even ... See more