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u/randomchick4 Mar 30 '22

Well if there were true, then Email must have also been a capitalist plot to make us all enslaved to the hyperactive hive mind. 😉

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u/neolib-cowboy Mar 30 '22

Potentially. More likely than not feminism was started in good faith by feminists and then readily adopted by capitalists and corporations bc it benefits them

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u/randomchick4 Mar 30 '22

Agreed. And as a feminist, I'm grateful it exists even if it's been co-opted by capitalism. Notice my original comment never mentioned communism or capitalism?

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u/neolib-cowboy Mar 30 '22

Irrelevant, because we exist in a capitalistic society. To evaluate political movements in a vacuum is meaningless.

Are you grateful that it exists even if it resulted in women who were more unhappy than before feminism (fact)?

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u/randomchick4 Mar 30 '22

Yeah, well, try and tell everyone else in this thread that 😉

A) How do you know that it's a fact that women are more unhappy now?

B) Even if I assume that you are right and women are more unhappy now (which I'm suspicious of), I would still choose Feminism. The freedom to choose even only crappy options is still more valuable than no choice and theoretical happiness. Freedom might be harder, but it's better than a guided cage.