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ORIGINAL: Elisabella
Just out of curiosity is there any choice a woman actively makes that is not considered feminist?
Dangit, you've asked a question I don't have an answer to.
FWIW-my understanding of feminism (or at least, the sort of feminism that doesn't make me want to hurl) is not that any choices x,y,z are intrinsically feminist-feminism is fighting for the right to be able to *make* choices x,y,z.
In that context the question doesn't quite apply. I think.
But it's late so I may be confused.
That makes sense...but I wonder what the criteria for "the right to be able to make choices" is.
Is the legal right to make a choice different from the right to make a choice without being negatively judged and ostracized? And if so, then what should people judge you for, if not the choices you actively make?
First, I would have to say that any choice a woman actively makes on her own would have to be considered feminist. I'm glad you didn't ask that about men, because I've already taken my pain meds and that would require way too much intense thought, lol.
The "criteria" for the right to make choices, in most of the Western World, is defined pretty much by law. The law has determined when you (general you) is considered an adult. For medical purposes, that age is lower, varying by the medical issue at hand.
Yes the legal right to make a choice is different from the right to make a choice without being negatively judged and ostracized. To pick something relevant, but hopefully easiest to understand, look at abortion. The law gives you the right to choose to have an abortion. But the law also provides others the freedom to take offense to your choice. And pro-life people do judge you by that choice without even knowing the circumstances.
And if so, then what should people judge you for, if not the choices you actively make?
In a perfect world, people would not judge others for making decisions/choices they make. Ideally, we would allow people to make whatever choices they wanted as long as those decisions were within the law and not causing harm to others or themselves. Why the last part? Because we certainly shouldn't allow people to make the choice to kill someone, rob a bank, etc., and there are some things that people will do that seriously injure themselves, like becoming a heroine addict, that we should try to help them not do.
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