None of these are the right questions! Intellectually lazy and very uncurious women tend to engage in hypervigilance and compulsive surveillance of themselves and over other women, because it gives full agency and the active voice to objects instead of to people. Women believe that feeling suspicion towards any given ritual object magically imbues it the power of authority. If it holds oppression inside it, she can choose to sacrifice it and the object's oppression power is vanquished without a vessel, like horcruxes. e.g. throwing a miniskirt away. And if it holds feminism power, then it decreases her "oppression" (which can be guilt, or vaguely bad emotions) like crystals do. e.g. buying a boob mug from etsy. Passive feminism is a choice feminism which is all a very silly fantasy. It is entirely faith-based. "If I choose this option and play feminism like a videogame, the patriarchy loses!" No, they do not.

Faith means that they don't have to actually DO the task of considering the real historical and present sociological connections of these objects or depersonalized actions to the actual active oppressor; men. Whether or not males factor directly into the action, the choice, or the passive, may completely alter the significance of these objects. If you truly believe feminism isn't a part of society but something one woman can achieve alone in private with inert things in the absence of other women, with no male oppressor present to act against, you are completely lost and confused about the intentional purpose of sociological movements.

Butterflies Converge

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