A consequence of feminism merging with pop culture is that it’s becoming commodified. Teens are buying feminist etsy patches and are putting ‘intersectionality’ into their twitter bios, but are failing to engage or critically think about how the sexism woc face is often racialised (i. e i n t e r s e c t i o n a l i t y) I mean i’m all for visual representations of your feminist praxis, but f e m i n i s m is much more than some cool quirky watered down tumblr aesthetic
lol remember that time Abrams said he wouldn’t put an gay character in Star Trek because he didn’t want Star Trek to have an “agenda” (even tho that’s what Star Trek is KNOWN FOR but okay) but now he’s like “Star Wars can have a gay character because you know Star Wars has always been full of possibility” and I’m like okay… but Star Trek’s not? Like, the franchise that was known for pushing the envelope…. the one that says we should all work together to make the world a better place and put aside prejudice… isn’t full of possibility… okay…. like yeah I’m happy for Star Wars but I’m still bitter as fuck and like I’m not about to hop on his dick lmao