As you I am sorry this is the reality of a large part of the "feminism". Has become a "girls club" instead of a tool for change. Which only helps to perpetuate what I call the "Teflon Road." That is how I explain the fact of having "many amazing women doing fantastic things" which amount to no change or shallow, superficial tweaks with limited if any effect in deconstructing patriarchy.
Your term "Teflon Road" is brilliant. What particularly irked me about this one was that there was in years past at least some small middling attempt to give a nod to one or another political cause. Even that has been done away with now, the only task left is how to arrange oneself along a languid red couch in a multi million dollar fun pad.
Now, it is like the Oscars to being a woman who puts it out there, weekly! I have signed up, and attended half - until I got exhausted - of events, when I realized we need to change the dynamics bcs it is NOT working to deconstruct. Stats in gender based violence worldwide and in every field sadly shows that
Don't apologize for your fury. Indira Gandhi in her cynical way would cut them down to size -- "There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who do the work, and those who take the credit. I try to be in the first group. There is much less competition."
I've used her line before, eye to eye, to great effect :-)
As you I am sorry this is the reality of a large part of the "feminism". Has become a "girls club" instead of a tool for change. Which only helps to perpetuate what I call the "Teflon Road." That is how I explain the fact of having "many amazing women doing fantastic things" which amount to no change or shallow, superficial tweaks with limited if any effect in deconstructing patriarchy.
Your term "Teflon Road" is brilliant. What particularly irked me about this one was that there was in years past at least some small middling attempt to give a nod to one or another political cause. Even that has been done away with now, the only task left is how to arrange oneself along a languid red couch in a multi million dollar fun pad.
Now, it is like the Oscars to being a woman who puts it out there, weekly! I have signed up, and attended half - until I got exhausted - of events, when I realized we need to change the dynamics bcs it is NOT working to deconstruct. Stats in gender based violence worldwide and in every field sadly shows that
Agree!! here's my note on the Teflon Road https://www.itssverona.it/the-teflon-road-resignification-and-policy-vacuum-normalise-gender-microaggressions
Don't apologize for your fury. Indira Gandhi in her cynical way would cut them down to size -- "There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who do the work, and those who take the credit. I try to be in the first group. There is much less competition."
I've used her line before, eye to eye, to great effect :-)