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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a former MIL (my son is now divorced) it's heartwarming to me to see so many positive MIL posts in this thread.

It also occurs to me that basically MILs are all just...women.  If you disparage MILs or even just your MIL you are basically just attacking women.  Chances are most of the women commenting here will one day be a MIL.  Are you so sure that your generation will have cracked the code to be a universally loved MIL?  That's a very naive assumption.[/quote]

Being a feminist does not mean you have to support or approve of everything every woman does. You can absolutely hold individual women accountable for their actions, especially if those actions subscribe to misogynist power structures or harm you personally. Women can be abusive, sexist, enabling, etc. Just like men. We can have it all!

Sorry if this seems like an overreaction but I've gotten the "you can't criticize me for things I did that screwed you over, because women are supposed to support women" thing before and I don't like it.[/quote]

Also, choices women make that disempower or oppress other women are not feminist, even if they were made by women (see: Amy Coney Barrett and Susan Collins)[/quote]

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