Music Banter - View Single Post - Rishi Sunak says 'a man is a man and a woman is a woman'

elphenor · 01-23-2024, 08:51 AM

in the 19th Century the defining cause of feminism was suffrage

it was necessary to attack the docile role of women and to ask them to assert themselves like men

Here you have the (important) idea that someone is made a woman by their oppression, and should seek to escape from that

there were detractors from this idea almost as early as it was formed because it devalues femininity

but especially by the 70s it was disputed

this is relevant to the broader conversation here because it is now the belief of (reasonable) people that it's perfectly valid to be a feminine woman however you feel like expressing that