For Sale. Very suspicious of how feminism and woman power is appropriated by big transnational businesses, which generally operate on the abuse of (women) workers in the third world, where labor is cheap and laws are lax in favor of foreign "investments" in sweatshops and factories. It is of course the same abuse we know many Filipinas suffer in the hands of our own locally-run businesses, from that mall running on the contractual, no-benefits labor of salesgirls, to women workers who get little or no chance at actually changing their lives in the hands of purported "social enterprises" that's supposed to be an alternative kinder capitalist model but too often functions no differently when it comes to actually empowering workers and giving them a just share of the enterprise's profits. That some of these businesses are also run by women should force us to think about how in the Philippines, it is critical not only to acknowledge class difference, but to see it in relation to any articulation and exercise of feminism, because really: when we celebrate woman power by selling something how much of that is about our own practice of ensuring that we don't abuse other women, and how much of it is just us capitalizing on it, complicit in the exercise of simply using these terms and concepts as soundbites, because hey look! we can sell a P1,400-peso shirt while we're at it! We don't even have to practice or believe in feminism to do it! #kawomenan #Philippines #feminism #feminismPH #feminist #capitalism #classcrisis #classviolence
