Feminist Got Triggered when Pearl said this...
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss whether or not feminism is dead, and what it means to be a feminist in the 21st century. We discuss what feminism means to us and how it has changed over the years, and why we should care about it.
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I think that depends on the definition of feminism.
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I strongly think that feminism is more of an action than an identity.
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I would say it's uplifting all women, in which case it's very alive.
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At the same time, if we do follow that definition,
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feminism has splintered off into so many different areas
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that you can look at people like Sheryl Sandberg
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who say you should just get another nanny if you feel oppressed.
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And if we're talking about that kind of feminism, yeah, it's pretty dead.
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Yeah, I mean, as long as the human race exists, feminism will never be dead.
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There's something that we're going to have to strive and work towards
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As long as there's power and oppression, there will be people fighting for equity.
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And until that somehow goes away, feminism is alive and well.
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I think feminism isn't actually about equality.
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I think feminism is really about women wanting special privileges and treatment
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And I, for me, as a womanist, as a black feminist, right,
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as someone who's really thinking about human rights, dignity, right, equity, right,
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as long as that's not, that need isn't met, we're still going to keep fighting.
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And I think what it looks like is going to differ depending on where you are in the world.
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For me, I just see it as a lens, which isn't necessarily antagonistic or protagonistic.
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Similar to what Pearl just said, I find that a lot of feminist ideology and thought today
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feels more of like a supremacist movement rather than something that is supposed to be advancing
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I don't think that we can really term what's going on as feminism because it looks so different
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So in that way, I would say it's taken its last breaths of life.
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Yeah, I definitely think it's getting more and more radicalized.
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I think I'll preface and say that I don't know so much about modern Western feminism.
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And there might be a lot of terms that I don't know, like political jargon and stuff.
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But I believe in the advancement of women, whoever considers themselves a woman.
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So it's deeply rooted that feminism has always existed.
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I think America's a little obsessed with themselves.
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And it's like always feminism is rooted in America.
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And it's kind of offensive because for thousands of years, women have been dying for their rights.
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I think as a black woman specifically, when you talk about feminism, yeah, the mainstream
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first thing you think about is a certain type of feminism that tends to exclude still,
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even today, even with intersectional feminism, exclude African-American women.
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And also upper middle class white women has predominantly been the face of what we quote
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I think feminism is attempting to say, okay, the first thing we agree on is that there
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are barriers and friction to what I need and what I want based on the fact that I'm a woman.
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What it ignores is that, and what privilege is, is that you may not have to think that being
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a woman and being a black woman and being a black woman who has a disability, for example,
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You have more barriers, you have more friction, you are less able to get what you want.
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You're undervalued in a way that's like, okay, well, you know, that's life.
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That's what I mean by equity and that we're able to, without friction, all get the same needs met.
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I think life is easier if you're a girl, actually.
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I think there's a lot of benefits that men don't have.
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Like, honestly, I think as a girl, you have equal opportunity in the world.
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Like, for example, we have quotas for women in specific jobs that are given to us that
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So, yeah, I would say it's easier being a girl.
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Just from the viewpoint over here, though, it seems there's a lot of pretty privilege in
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what you're saying and that you're white and you present.
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I think that you present in a way that beauty standards have accepted.
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They call me ugly on the internet all the time.
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I just mean that there are a certain value that we give to certain bodies.
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I mean, let's also dig into why these quotas exist and why these, what you're calling privileges
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No, but it's because there have historically and presently in most jobs been fewer women
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How is it sexism when we have no barriers today?
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That ignores a lot that I'm a woman with a disability.
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So there's a lot stopping me that you don't have to think about.
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Well, as I said before, I'm speaking about women.
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You're speaking as, you're speaking for yourself.
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Of course there's going to be other barriers if you're disabled, I'm sure.
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Like I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm talking about as a woman.
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I was just banned on TikTok and we are demonetized on a daily basis on this platform.
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