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And body autonomy does include things that you don’t personally like either. I was prompted to write this post after a series of bad takes from progressives, but one of them was re-hashing the Sabrina Carpenter album cover drama with “I don’t think it’s conservative of me to think that the album cover is a bad look when we’ve seen images of women being abused in this way” because I do actually think you’ve failed to understand feminism by projecting your morals onto a woman who was consensually expressing her own autonomy just because she expressed it in a way that you didn’t like or that made you uncomfortable.

Body autonomy also means unhealthy choices. Body autonomy also means regret rates. Body autonomy also means freedom of sexuality. Body autonomy also means mutilation. If you believe body autonomy has limitations and exceptions, then your feminism is most likely surface level.

To use just example, the draft is antifeminist and unethical NOT because it denies the extremely true fact that women are just as strong as men, but because it is antifeminist and unethical to force someone else to risk their life or die period, much less for the military goals of the state*

*Major military goals of the state, historically and currently, include imperialism, self-enrichment, stealing oil, forcible extraction of resources, forcible acquisition of territory, inflating Donald Trump's ego, etc. etc. (with some variation depending on the particular state). All of these either Note: I'm using state here in an international political context, meaning "a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory; especially: one that is sovereign," (source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, state, entry 5a)

And of course, the military goals of the state extremely predictable endanger and kill the most vulnerable people among us - and women are one of the most legally vulnerable classes on the planet.

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Feminism is for everyone who needs bodily autonomy - which is everyone!!!!!

Bodily autonomy is life or death, directly or indirectly, in a thousand different ways - as a hell of a lot of women, trans people, and/or disabled people can all absolutely attest

This includes all people who fall into any legal classification of "woman," including but not limited to: cis women; trans women; nonbinary people whose identities or experiences intersect with womanhood in a great many different ways, especially trans femmes; anyone with an F on any government documents currently; anyone with an F on any current or outdated government documents that the government still has official record of*

*Look, forget about tumblr trans discourse for a moment. Conservative assholes and authoritarian governments and alt-right politicians are persecuting people based on what they think that person's gender ""actually is""/""should be."" And they are persecuting people on that basis using three main types of documents: People's birth certificates, people's applications for a change of gender marker, and, if relevant, people's immigration documents. (That last middle one applies to multiple types of documents, but especially to a person's passport, driver's license, and birth certificate.) That is how Kansas invalidating trans people's driver's license en masse: application/approval records for a change of gender marker on a person's driver's license Being a woman, being TMA/having to deal with transmisogyny, having an F on your birth certificate, and having an F on any of your current identity documents all make people legally disadvantaged and politically vulnerable in distinct but highly overlapping ways

And then we circle back around to one of feminism's biggest, longest fights, and another major point of legally and material vulnerablility: Anyone who can be forcibly impregnated, forced to bear children, or forced to give birth.

Even without any government involvment, those are material conditions that can make you physically In the last of those cases, one example of the dire stakes when it comes to bodily autonomy, feminism, reproductive rights, and women's rights is the horrific story of Adrianna Smith, a young Black woman who was declared brain dead following racist medical neglect in February 2025 - while pregnant.

Thanks to Trump's hand-appointed judges destroying abortion rights and overturning Roe v. Wade, the Georgia legal system forcibly kept on life support for over 4 months without the input or consent of her family, until the fetus she carried was born. At which point, the US and Georgia stuck her family with all of the enormous medical bills for 4 months of intensive life support, high-risk pregnancy, high-risk delivery, an emergency C-section, and at least another 8 months of NICU support - to start!! All under United States health care price regimes!!!!!!! For a fetus that was frankly highly unlikely to be born alive, and ultimately delivered prematurely via emergency C-section weighing less than 2 pounds (0.9 kilograms), who was "clinging to life in the NICU" for 8 months, before his grandmother brought him home while still on oxygen, as of the latest update I found (March 5, 2026). His family asks for continuing prayers for his life and health.

Oh and then Chance's father was forced to sue his dead wife for custody of his own son in order to avoid the state of Georgia dumping Chance in foster care while he's literally not even off oxygen yet.

Adrianna Smith's family has created a fundraiser to cover medical, legal, childcare expenses, which you can donate to

Link to the official fundaraiser is sourced from the news article with the latest update from her family (March 2026):

So, for all the reasons state above and more:

Without bodily autonomy, there can be no true women's liberation

And so bodily autonomy must be a core pillar of feminism

Or, put another way (I am paraphrasing someone but for the life of me I can't remember who, and it was a tumblr post, sooo it's not like a search engine will help me find it. but pls drop the link if you know the post I'm talking about):