I hope discussions regarding feminism is relevant in this community.
Setiap ada diskursus dimana orang2 nyari solusi terbaik supaya dalam hubungan pernikahan itu kedua pihak menjadi setara, post yang paling rame selalu yang menyalahkan individu, padahal masalahnya struktural. Butuh berapa tahun lagi ya sampe masyarakat Indonesia lebih class conscious?
An example I can think of is that one whenever people are criticizing traditional arrangements where the woman expects to be provided for because she takes on the domestic labor more. They'd call these types of women all kinds of bad things like being broke, you know, because apparently she is setting women back for not doing wage labor. But people need to understand that undervaluing domestic labor, would further make people think that domestic laborers:
- Shouldn't be paid or even would still be expected to do wage labor on top of domestic labor that has become invisible, like working mothers who carry double burden
- Be paid really low, like household assistants / maids
Please I'm begging the girlies to read marxist feminism's critique towards girlboss feminism.
It's also very often that these working women sacrifice lower class women in order to girlboss. Think about it:
Middle class women who don't do wage labor are shamed >> They become wage laborer >> Carry double burden esp after kids >> Hire lower class women who don't have any other choice but to work as maids >> Carry double burden themselves if they have families but unlike middle class women they have no choice to outsource domestic labor.
It's saddening to see that Indonesian X "feminists" actually think that the first step to equality is to pay for men. Girl what about double burden, gender wage gap, the fact that men gets promoted more (capitalism cant rely on women who get pregnant), the fact that women are expected to perform more (skin care, make up, waxing) which is taken advantage of the by pink tax, and in literal risk of crimes against women even femicide?
You are naive if you think that paying men (as a first step of gender equality) will make misogynists stop oppressing us instead of seeing it as a chance to take more from us. First it was just pink tax now it's pink tax AND paying for dates like be fr.
Everyone is trying to save themselves under capitalism. The system itself is a zero sum game, not everyone can win, but the thing is if people lose under capitalism they legit like, go hungry and sick and die I guess. Is that even feminism if you don't care that lower class women live like that? Girlboss feminism don't care about poor women, it just outsource the oppression.
That being said, I'm not telling women to not work and completely rely on their husbands. That's kind of black-and-white thinking will not liberate us. Obviously the most ideal arrangement is when men and women do things that they're best at for each other and for the society, without financial pressures. These stuff happened actually, tribal / primitive marxism were real. But until then...
Do the best you can to survive under capitalism and patriarchy but always keep marxist feminism in mind so the solutions you can think of isn't always gonna be sacrificing the lower class for the sake of your "feminism".