https://twitter.com/ariannahuff/status/960902212003221504
The world United States has gone completely bonkers
Feminists create problem for women, feminists pretend to solve problem. Hashtag therewasanattempt
No major social/political movement or normative/structural shift in a society, that I am aware of, has been without it's missteps, errors, flaws, idiot advocates, or ingrained institutional pushback.
As someone that is obsessed with labeling everything neoliberal and talking about needed radical reformation, I would think you would be a bit less condescending, broad brushing, and more empathetic about the reform seekers in this dynamic?
They're not reform seekers, they're incompetent shit stirrers whose efforts 99% of the time only result in pointless PR stunts. They're not just inoffensive to the system, they're also extremely useful to it (which is why the system strongly supports them).
Incompetent shit-stirrers who's efforts mostly end up ineffective - in the most cynical and callous interpretation - pretty much describes most political and social movements aimed at changing deeply ingrained normative or structural institutions in stable developed countries, historically vindicated movements or otherwise.
I hate to say it, but most of you Chapo Traphouse Bernie-Trumpers exude that sort of advocative idiocy and ignorance to effective and positive institutional change you are leveling at the #METOO, modern feminist movement. Except these people are actually making some notable structural inroads, even if they are maybe, sometimes, messy, over-corrective, and occasionally off the mark.