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Originally Posted by Maru
It means equal opportunity for women, but still not forgetting what it means to be a woman...
But if I'm honest, I'm not a fan of these labels and I feel like group identity should really be a thing of the past. Being proud of being a woman as an individual though is different because it's a descriptor, but I just don't think that we should be wearing labels as a badge to be included in "communities", etc... I used to think that was such a great thing, a great way to make your voice heard. However, that thinking actually leads to people being sheltered from the issues since once you are apart of the group, you have to "subscribe" to it's views... therefore if you go out of your way to make issues known within the group, your "card" can be pulled and it becomes taboo. It's just hegemony disguised as "equal rights"...
I think that's such an outdated way of doing things. It's just weird to me... that in the 90's, it was all about non-conformity, shedding stereotypes and getting rid of group think and eschewing labels... and now where we are in 2018, trying to get back into group-think and wearing labels and it's just such a huge step backwards imho. It seems like individualism is understanding a re-evaluation in our culture...
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I agree Maru, I'd much rather be part of a community of a thousand different nuanced and personally considered views where everyone respectfully (or even non-respectfully!) shares them... Than one where everyone sings from the same hymn sheet and pats each other on the back for how correct they are.
That's one of my main gripes with these movements... You hear exactly the same buzzwords and phrases, said in the same way, in the same context, but coming from different people and I just think... How much of this is just echoed from the last thing you read on the topic? Are any of these your own words? Have you even really given it all that much thought?