It's crazy how resistant the left, as a generalisation, is to acknowledging sexism. The richest, whitest, straightest, most able-bodied, most gender-conforming woman is still subject to sexism and I think a lot of leftist men would rather die than admit it.
I think there is a real resentment simmering under the surface, this idea that women have been cynically exploiting claims of sexism and have become too privileged, that exists in a lot of leftist spaces that no one wants to admit to themselves. And I think a lot of women have really internalised that and will jump at the chance to push the bad women under the bus to soothe their own guilt and self-loathing. It's sad in younger women and fucking annoying in older ones.
People really do think that men did nothing during this reclamation of our rights, that there was no resistance. Feminism has not developed in a void with men just letting us regain freedom; thinking so paints men in undeserving good light and also advances the patriarchal agenda of making sexism look like a thing of the past and diminishing the achievements of all feminists, making it look like they didn't even work too hard, like they didn't need to work that hard, like men never meant to hurt us, like in fact women overreacted and we need to stop for thinking that the oppression we've been given isn't what we deserve and asking for more hurts men so we should stop with this silly little game of feminism.
There is no system of oppression that goes down without fighting back, right now, there is racist propaganda everywhere. There is patriarchal propaganda everywhere, all the time. The fight has never been won. Women have never been free. Millions are trafficked, millions are mutilated, hundreds of millions are raped and beaten. These things are happening right now. I don't know any woman who has never experienced any sexism.
The first woman to participate in the Boston Marathon was attacked by one of its organizers who tried to rip her number off. There has been violent resistance every step of the way.
