The best "feminist card" comment ever.

[nonethefewer]

This is, by far, the best comment I've ever seen that had to do with "If I don't do [xyz], am I no longer a feminist?":

While I'm all for fighting this on principle, do I have to turn in my feminist card if I want to choose my battles?

The goal of posts like this is consciousness raising; let's look at the sexist subtext of these things so many people for granted. That doesn't mean if you choose to do those things you are Cast Out of the Feminist Circle for All Eternity. It's not about maintaining ideological purity, it's about analyzing the attitudes underlying this sort of thing. We all compromise with the patriarchy just to survive, so if that's one of the compromises you feel like you have to make, so be it. Just acknowledge that it's a compromise. So many people feel attacked when things like this are analyzed through a feminist lens, but it's absolutely necessary to do it in order to show the omnipresent patriarchal attitudes. This isn't about judging the individual people living their lives, but challenging the meaning of traditions that demean women and treat us as possessions without autonomy.

- LivvySidhe

[Copypastad from my other blog.]