I think one of the unsung problems of feminism is that no one wants to talk about the fact that not all women are of the same mind about what feminism means, or - more relevantly perhaps - about what they want it to mean. One group of women may be very much in favor of equal pay in the workplace, but adamantly opposed to any legal curtailing of their motherhood rights. One group may be in favor of equal parental rights, but be dead-set against their daughters being subject to the draft. We have this problem because feminism at its core is about women being able to make choices, not having it dictated to us about what our choices should be or what being a woman means. Ergo, you have a great percentage of our gender insisting that their choice is that feminism is only about thisthing or only about thatthing but never thatotherthing, because that's what feminism means to them.
It's a tangle. I don't think we can call out women who are opposed to women serving mandatory military tours as not being feminists, but I still can't find any reason that anyone would oppose women serving in voluntary combat service. That's just strange.
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Date: 2011-10-04 06:45 pm (UTC)It's a tangle. I don't think we can call out women who are opposed to women serving mandatory military tours as not being feminists, but I still can't find any reason that anyone would oppose women serving in voluntary combat service. That's just strange.