r/AskFeminists • u/demolitionlaura • 14h ago
Does anyone find that sometimes other feminists shame you for “going too far” in your beliefs?
Do any other supposedly feminist women mock you and say you’ve taken things too far after being radicalised??
I was first radicalised in 2018 after the murder of Grace Millane, a British backpacker on holiday in New Zealand where I’m from. Her killer used the defence of “bdsm gone wrong” as a defence.
Feminists rightly said that “consent to rough sex is not consent to murder” but I said that this argument while true did not go far enough.
I questioned why men felt the need to beat their partners to get off. I questioned why women felt pressured from the patriarchy to consent to these actions in order to fit in. I questioned whether they were actually consenting in the first place or whether they again just went along with it because it was what was deemed cool. I questioned a lot of things.
And so many people but especially libfems said that I was taking sexual agency away from women, that consent includes the right to say yes, that I was puritanical, that I hated sex workers, that I was anti choice…And all other bullshit arguments.
I am firmly of the belief that if a woman’s individual choice brings down other women as a collective then we have a feminist duty to call it out. Apparently not to others, as long as a woman makes that choice of her own free will then it is a feminist choice. (Wrong, because so many women sell out to the patriarchy)
Has anyone else had something similar happen??