when single, such women have the additional option of announcing “no cis straight white men” on their dating profiles (however, in my cis straight white male experience, this rule is not always observed to the letter)
"But unfortunately the only ways of articulating that you’re a human being with an inner life"
We are still stuck on Project Proving Women Are Fully Human it would seem. Btw, your linked piece is phenomenal. I would add that some of this also seems to be women not wanting to be like their mothers and what could be more different from the previous generation than disavowing straightness.
The irony of this is, that while being a mother seems low status (soccer mom, wine mom, mombie, only praiseworthy if a MILF), in progressive circles, women are expected to act like mothers. Caring for everyone, not asserting any individual needs, hence the common cry that feminism should be for everyone, to help everyone (but with women doing all the work). In It's a Sin, the Jill character who acted as a surrogate mother and had no personal life or loves of her own was wildly praised with the #BeMoreJill as women lined up to say that they too wished they were just like her.
when single, such women have the additional option of announcing “no cis straight white men” on their dating profiles (however, in my cis straight white male experience, this rule is not always observed to the letter)
"But unfortunately the only ways of articulating that you’re a human being with an inner life"
We are still stuck on Project Proving Women Are Fully Human it would seem. Btw, your linked piece is phenomenal. I would add that some of this also seems to be women not wanting to be like their mothers and what could be more different from the previous generation than disavowing straightness.
The irony of this is, that while being a mother seems low status (soccer mom, wine mom, mombie, only praiseworthy if a MILF), in progressive circles, women are expected to act like mothers. Caring for everyone, not asserting any individual needs, hence the common cry that feminism should be for everyone, to help everyone (but with women doing all the work). In It's a Sin, the Jill character who acted as a surrogate mother and had no personal life or loves of her own was wildly praised with the #BeMoreJill as women lined up to say that they too wished they were just like her.