Hey I'm Jude and I came across your boards because I'm looking for somewhere that seems to have an active philosophy section.
I can't find a thread about feminism, except one asking about the third wave, which most feminists if worth their salt would disregard these days.
Are there any feminists on here?
If so I look forward to meeting you.
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spanglechick says there isn’t
a thread on feminism, but feminism is discussed in a lot of other threads. The place I see most feminism here is the sofa thread for parents, but there’s also been a lot on the Terf thread, and more rarely in other Politics forum threads.
Starting one thread would be pretty broad eh. Sexism is part of the background structure of how everything is run, so you could have a ‘feminist’ perspective on almost everything. What’s a ‘feminist issue’ in that context, cos yeh stuff like period poverty is a feminist issue for sure, but so is austerity, so is the criminal justice system, so is sport etc.
For me personally the biggest feminist issue is unpaid labour. We need to solve the fact that women do the vast amount of unpaid labour- caring for children, the elderly, neighbours, doing the housework- shouldering the lions share of the responsibility and organisation and obviously actually DOING it too.
To me that very basic economic inequality underpins everything. Even, or even
especially, domestic abuse. Because economic/financial dependence on men skews the power dynamic so fucking permanently it essentially creates the conditions for male violence (and consequently the murder of women) to flourish.
This needs sorting. Everything else like ‘glass ceilings’ is tangentially related so far as I can see. Yes it’s absolutely important that women at the top are paid the same as men, but it’s far FAR more critical that women at the bottom are paid more (healthcare assistants, carers, foster carers) or paid at ALL (kinship carers, informal care).
These arguments always stick in the throat a bit cos there’s an assumption that it’s only money that gives something value or confers power, but that does seem to be the case. Anyway I’ve got diverged but that’s my 2p.
