roboslaver [none/use name]
Okay, but Joe Biden calls himself a feminist and everyone believes him. Everyone who voted for him believes him, and Everyone who voted for Trump believes him. You’re having this fight over symbols to the detriment of your own movement. Don’t you feel like you’ve been owned when you have to explain “actually I’m a real feminist, feminism is when you don’t rape people, Joe Biden is actually Liberal Feminist”
Stop acting like we haven’t been owned. We’ve been owned, it sucks.
Gender is just as material as class, but what structural would you make that aren’t already rooted in class? Legal things that you would make illegal?
And you can’t say repro rights because those are class based now as well. Only working class women can’t afford bc / abortions where they are effectively outlawed in the U.S.
“Not my Comrades”
Yeah, because this image does divide the left. No one is fucking arguing for a more sexist class politics, but it’s co-opting the arguments we see from the mainstream media about the left. And it fits right in with centrists saying “Oh look at the left they’re just as bad as the right”
In pre-covid times
go to a bar, see a show you might like stand around awkwardly, get a drink go outside, bum a cigarette from someone, or if you already have one bum a light strike up a convo “good band huh” / “this band sucks” / “I like your shirt” / “dang I always wanted to try Blue Spirits” typical responses “yeah, they’re good do you listen to <insert normie band here>” / “Yeah, I’m friends with the drummer we all told him he sucks” / “Thanks, yeah, do you listen to Chapo Trap House?” / “Here have one” +1 friend They probably have friends of their own so you can build off that. Overall I find it’s easiest to talk to people like you’re already friends. (not really close friends)
or, to any stranger you see during the day “Hey, haven’t I seen you around somewhere?” usually they’ll be a sucker and list off a few of the places they show their face a lot. Just lie and say you also go to those places.
Feminism has become a bougie affect, stripped of any meaningful political demands. Any “gender” based fight you could have is just a simulacrum of a broader, class based fight you should be having. Me-too failed because it was only for ladder-climbers. No one was advocating against the daily prison rapes experienced by men and women because that would have required a class consciousness that feminists just don’t have. Wage gaps suck, but what are we to make of the wage gap between a janitor and a CEO? Being a woman is just another material condition.
Look at the way otherwise progressive Democratic voters went for Warren over Sanders. They knew she would lose, they just wanted to vote for a woman. Which candidate would have “smashed the Patriarchy?”
Class should come first. The rest is just divisive.
I couldn’t imagine a more lib sentiment than extending human rights to objects.
I’m not worried though, a.i. will never advance to Skynet / robo uprising levels