Idiot Feminism
It's part of the violence that men expect women to be fully responsible for everything that happens to them in a world that's been set up for the past five thousand years to slice them into pieces for the benefit of shittier men.
It’s also part of the violence that our wounding is taboo, ironically stigmatized not because of the patriarchy but because of the post-feminist fallacy of pretending that women have somehow transcended gender domination. We are to assume in this fallacious reality that there are no longer any chains holding us down now that slightly more women than men are graduating from the ludicrously expensive and increasingly useless institution of the university.
Idiot feminism is whatever stands in the way of community recognition of systematized harm. It can and often does look quite smart, like Sheryl Sandberg. And it often becomes powerful because it’s so rewarded. All idiot feminism exists to either explain away systemic harms as less harmful than they really are or, better yet, attributing full accountability for those harms back onto individual women (or in the case of #metoo, specific men). It is ironic because this individualization of harm so obviously plays into the mechanics of existing oppression.
Idiot feminism is what makes women feel stupid and weak for feeling hopeless and exhausted after a lifetime of sitting under a waterfall of cascading cruelties. It’s not unlike that idiot cheerleader who yells at the goth kids from abusive families to turn their frowns upside down, it’s football time!
Idiot feminism is the reductionist compromise of complicated truths in favor of immediate legibility. It tells a short story that men like to hear because listening to women tell the full story is boring and hard. Idiot feminism is like idiot socialism in that it anticipates its audience to be much like teenage boys who haven’t the patience or focus to listen to adult women talk about anything.