A Feminism That Takes to the Streets
Today's Women's Strike is a rebuke to corporate feminism.
“A Day Without A Woman is a strike for privileged protesters.” “The ‘Day Without a Woman’ strike is going to be mostly a day without privileged women.” “Women: Go Ahead and Strike, But Know That Many of Your Sisters Can’t.”
The cascade of derisive headlines leading up to today’s Women’s Strike has been something to behold. What should we make of such scorn?
For one, it’s exposed many liberals’ congenital desire to tear down anything that appears to their left. But it’s also revealed the fraught ground on which mainstream debates about feminism take place, and how the movement itself is transforming.