#bwaaa theres a lot more to this discussion but alas

[jingerpi]

it shouldn't really be surprising that a lot of women are defaulting to reactionary patriarchal rhetoric with regards to work and certain coquette aesthetics.

We're told that we're economic equals. We're told that other women have succeeded, why don't we? We're told we have the right to vote, that sexism is over. and yet, we experience it every day. We struggle every day against sexism, against sexual assault, against wage gaps, against being taken less seriously and being written off as emotional or hysterical. We work jobs and raise children. We face medical discrimination and ever lessening bodily autonomy.

So is it a surprise when women experiencing these things want economically stable and powerful men to care for them? no, absolutely not!

is it still wrong? of course! it's not going to save us to rely on men, but this rhetoric is not going to stop until we address the underlying causes for the oppression of women. We're faced every day with a dissonance between what we're told we can do and what we can actually achieve in reality, the correct response isn't to rely on men, but to organize for liberation.

What that doesn't mean, is that women who give up trying to girlboss it up and break through the glass ceiling are secret fascists who were always oppressors, what it means is that we're suffering, and even the reactionary elements in our strata, even those who are uneducated or misled, are feeling the pains of patriarchy and the lies society tells us