#fermernersm

I think those fears and concerns are definitely justified, we've already seen how easily people will blame feminists who prioritize other women for anything that men do. That said, I don't know if I can condone personally that defeatist track, if only because it's a self fulfilling prophecy.

Doomerism is an actual tool these days in the era of social media outrage, and it's been used pretty handily to limit the people turning out to vote or who willingly participate in politics. This is how the Republican party has been doing so well in the culture war for twenty years while becoming less and less popular overall every election cycle. "There is no hope for women" might be a fun mantra that feels appropriate at the time, but it's repetition also serves no one but anti feminists in the long run.

The benefit however to this being a pattern is, humans are made to recognize patterns as they happen in front of us. Already we've seen people and specifically women noticing the pattern of male voices and lives being treated as inherently better than female ones. Women are able to find feminism in their own lives even if they've never read a text on the subject or don't know the right words, just from observing the world around her.