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Genuine question for my fellow female-identifying Mastodonians navigating this late-capitalist era:
What is worse: a corporate charade that pays lip service to international women's day without any framework or system to uphold these values, or no charade at all?
I'm marching tomorrow and I am furious.
@nichorra there's a photo call tonight that I will be avoiding. I'm glad there's something, I suppose, but participation in IWD events (or at least the ones I've been invited to) is pure bullshit, and I won't participate in this smokescreen for an underlying lack of equality.
In particular, gathering all the women together and not involving men makes it look like equality is something women need to work on, for ourselves, for a day
That's not even starting to look outside of cis people!
@nichorra I'm not organised enough in my thoughts to write multiple short posts for a single thread, but I could talk about this for hours!
@nichorra shortest answer, make every day one to demand equality for *everyone*
@nichorra damnit, it took this long for me to remember that it's *intersectional* feminism I want, not a group photo on an Instagram story
@nichorra the photocall just gives the pricks ammunition. Perpetual victims ask genuine victims what are they crying about when companies tie themselves in knots, murrah yeah, to cater to woke lefty feminists. I'd rather cut the shit and be honest. If there is such a thing as sin, surely hypocrisy ranks high amongst them.
I work at a worldwide company, and in my corner we've hit equality and even rolled a bit further (it's the best team I've ever worked with.)
That being said, the company as a whole is not there.
I'm ignoring the "take a picture and tell your story" performative nonsense.
I'd happily listen to a "These are the concrete ways in which the company has improved this measure over the last 364.5 days" meeting...but they haven't so
Both options are awful, the performative is worse IMO.
@nichorra The charade is way worse. In both cases you're shit, but in only one are you also lying about it.
@nichorra I'd rather they say nothing, and reveal how terrible they are.
It's akin to queerwashing; companies will pump millions into anti-queer groups throughout the year, then suddenly scream, "we love the gays" in June, to increase their profits for a month.
Then the cishet - or men for IWD - just look at us, and decide we've "got our noses out of joint", because we just had an entire day/week/month dedicated only to us; how can we whine about being ignored?
Clearly just a bunch of ingrates.
@nichorra the charade is worse because it creates a culture of deniability that corporate execs and others continually point to to “prove” that “women are equal.” Over the years, I have got into arguments with men (and also some women) who rely on the charade to tell me that women should not be complaining because “look how all these ‘wonderful’ corps are promoting women. Same goes for the charades they perform for BIPOC and 2SLGBTQA+ people. #intersectionality
@Lynnd on par with "But Lynn, I have daughters!"
@nichorra @Lynnd
There's a song about that (from Belfast's finest Feminist Punk band).
"She shouldn’t have to be your sister
She shouldn’t have to be your mother
Your relationship should not define how much you should respect her"
https://problempatterns.bandcamp.com/track/y-a-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMq-d1i52s
