Sarah Palin has said she is explicitly not a feminist.
I think women have equal worth and equal value as men, and should be treated with equal dignity. I believe sexism and the devaluation and abuse of women qua women is dehumanizing and evil. Unfortunately, while feminists would like to claim that this is "all" feminism is, it's not. It's a very narrow, very privileged political identity that seeks to speak for all women, without actually doing so.
You can be supportive of women's right to be treated like valuable human beings and not identify as a feminist. Among non-white women - which feminists have infamously never sought to include, while still relentlessly claiming to speak for all of us - this is the norm.
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Date: 2010-01-14 11:18 pm (UTC)I think women have equal worth and equal value as men, and should be treated with equal dignity. I believe sexism and the devaluation and abuse of women qua women is dehumanizing and evil. Unfortunately, while feminists would like to claim that this is "all" feminism is, it's not. It's a very narrow, very privileged political identity that seeks to speak for all women, without actually doing so.
You can be supportive of women's right to be treated like valuable human beings and not identify as a feminist. Among non-white women - which feminists have infamously never sought to include, while still relentlessly claiming to speak for all of us - this is the norm.