Just going to vent a bit about some stupid shit
I'm honestly tired of people, particularly women, who try to frame sexual violence as being just an inherent aspect of womanhood. That is one, not true, and, two, ends up unintentionally making women who have never experienced things like that before feel like their womanhood has been invalidated. I remember seeing a reblogged post on Tumblr a few years back with a bunch of plus-size women talking about how they dislike rhetoric similar to shit like this because they can't relate to those kinds of experiences and how it made them feel lesser than as women. You also have that one post on here from that user talking about the same thing, about how this framing of womanhood makes them feel like less of a woman because they never experienced sexual violence or harassment before.
Shit like this treats sexual violence as a sort of christening into womanhood. It is disgusting. I don't hate feminism or anything, but sometimes feminists just give me such a fucking headache. So often they fail to realize that the experiences of women cannot be generalized and that a lot of women experience sexism differently from one another. Sometimes, it feels like they don't even give a shit about fighting systematic oppression and just want to revel in their victimhood.
A lot of the time I feel uncomfortable in many feminist spaces due to them largely centering around white women and their experiences. They spend their time blaming everything on men, not realizing that even women can be perpetrators and uphold the patriarchal structure of our society as well. They will invalidate the experiences of other women who don't experience sexism in the same ways they do. They talk down to women of colour and sometimes even partake in acts of discrimination against us (masculinizing and sexualizing black women, adultifying brown and dark-skinned girls, infantilizing Asian women, fetishizing and dehumanizing young mixed-race girls, etc). They will treat womanhood as this narrow set of experiences that supposedly all women go through rather than something that varies a lot from person to person, even centring their movement around certain biological processes and experiences that some women, especially those who might be trans or intersex, cannot relate to. They refuse to hold up a mirror and talk about how gender roles and expectations can also lead to women getting away with shit that harms others as well, especially when it comes to SA and abuse. Hell, I could go onto an entire rant about how the patriarchy also impacts men negatively in some capacity as well, especially in the case of men of colour and queer men, and even when it comes to cis-het white dudes as well. Yet, some of these women are unwilling to even have this kind of conversation, wanting to instead uphold this sort of white-and-black view of things despite it being detrimental.
They also refuse to talk about how some cis-het white women use their position in society to further instigate discrimination against other women (along with other marginalized groups), willingly aligning themselves with the patriarchy because of its direct relationship with other forms of discrimination. Even if they end up suffering a bit for it, they still get to have more power over others and thus are willing to team up with it.
The way how they go about feminism is so surface-level and narrow to the point where I sometimes question why I even bother with the movement.