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movietonight · 11 months ago

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Betty Friedan was a pick me and hated lesbians.

Betty Friedan's position on lesbians is unfortunate but absolutely irrelevant to the point I was trying to make in my post.

The "trend" of "stay-at-home-girlfriend" and "tradwife" influencers on social media (as well as all that "girl math" and "girl dinner" and "explanation for the girlies" bullshit) is a revival of a second wave feminism era problem that requires a revisit of second wave feminism texts.

I, jokingly, suggested that these influencers should be tricked into reading Friedan's "feminine mystique" so they can be exposed to the dangers of the "problem that has no name". I don't think any contemporary feminist literature would speak to them because they chose to live like 1950s housewives, with the dangers of 1950s housewives, and thus should read about 1950s housewives.

#Feminism #Asks #betty friedan #The thing about older feminist texts is that we can just ignore the stuff that is shit #Because we're smart enough to realise that lgbt+ people need to be included in feminism #And that Friedan's work is not like some universal solution to all of feminism #The feminine mystique is a very specific text about a very specific problem of mostly white middle class women #Which was still a very real problem #And a problem we're somehow facing again because of that weird backslash we're seeing on social media #So yes we can apply that specific text to the revival of that specific problem without engaging in her later homophobia

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