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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feminism used to be about having choices. If you wanted to be a SAHM, that's fine it's your choice. If you wanted to work part time, that's fine it's your choice. If you want to work full time, that's fine it's your choice. Go get the life you want.

But it's morphed into you MUST work full time and have a career, there is no other choice. IF you do not do it this way, then you are a bad person to be looked down upon.

I don't like what feminism has become, personally. It should be about having the range of choices. It isn't anymore, and that is why it is losing supporters.[/quote]

http://feministing.com/2015/05/07/choice-feminism-time-to-choose-another-argument/

When we valorize these women’s choices as entirely their own and inherently feminist, we stop asking why women make them and why there are large visible trends in income, occupational stratification and segmentation, and the “work/family balance” issue. Put simply, these women’s “choices” were not entirely theirs.[/quote]
The first PP also has a very skewed understanding of the history of second-wave feminism if she thinks that feminism used to be more supportive women choosing 1950s-style domesticity. I actually don't think that besides the corporate "feminism" of the likes of Sheryl Sandberg (whom, I'm sorry, is not a feminist) modern feminism is at all about looking down on people who don't have a "career". [/quote]

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