Coming out of semi-retirement to say
bump her and bump her respectability politics.
I'm so tired of people using "feminism" - a concept that is near and dear to my misandrist heart
- to shame women and to concern troll them about "their image" and "what this might do do their future". They're
eighteen/nineteen. They can't think about the future because they haven't lived long enough yet, and
they're entitled to make mistakes. People in this age bracket live their lives online, and despite all of the fooferaw around people being fired for what their (nosey, intrusive) employers found on their social media feeds, as more people in this age bracket move into the workplace, we'll see concerns about this begin to die down. Think about how scandalized people were about political candidates and drug use about 20 years ago (if you're old enough to remember that), and now our Commander In Chief not only admitted to inhaling, he also admitted to trying cocaine.
And nobody blinked an eye!
Feminism isn't about choice, FWIW. It's a belief in the political, cultural, and social equality of women. So while I do think that this video didn't do anything to advance women's equality, I also don't think that it set the movement back 50 years. It isn't indicative of some great moral slide, nor is it cause for some great hand-wringing moment of concern. This is a media-created sh*tstorm, and I feel bad that we've all eaten it up -- myself included.
Having said that - I had the exact same reaction to seeing a black male football player in the video that others have mentioned in this thread.
Black people are not your props.