Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!

undercoverterrorist:

fuckyeahgenderstudies:

undercoverterrorist replied to your post: i don’t think there are set rules on what a woman should be in feminism, even if they are pro life, etc, they can be feminist, it’s all about choice in my opinion.

So being racist is a-okay but being anti-choice is not? wtf?

I don’t understand.

So many famous feminists have been openly racist and no one says that they’re not “real” feminists but if you’re pro-life or conservative, you’re not a real feminist.  That’s what I’m taking from all of this.  Do you see how that logic fails?

If i had been asked about it, that’s exactly what i would have said. But since i was asked about c/Conservatism that’s the thing that i focussed on.

I suppose i thought that when i wrote “Feminism is about choice, yes, but it’s not just about choice—if you choose to endorse a viewpoint that does not offer or believe in equality, how on earth is that feminist?” it was clear that i was talking about believing in equality on every level and across every axis.

But i’ll be totally overt about it now, just to be sure: if you don’t support equality on every axis—including but not limited to actively condemning and challenging racism, cissexism, homophobia, (dis)ableism and sexism—then i wouldn’t call you a feminist according to how i define it (we might call this FYGS-feminism) (and you’re a shitty fucking person). 

If you only believe in equality for some women, you might find that another feminist movement is more accepting of you. But not mine.