Feminists

I'm a RN, and I work with lots of young women. Very few of them self identify os a feminist. However when I talk about feminist issues, most of them agree. Even the conservative types will agree with things like your basic exploitation of the female body if I frame it a certain way. I'm very careful to distance it from so-called 'moral' concerns, because I'm sick of women carrying that burden, especially sex workers. I make that very clear. I get through to them that way.

In my position as a peer, I bring up feminist concerns every chance I get.

On the other hand you are exactly right; I hear about wedding plans, size shape and worth of wedding rings way too often. The young mothers, most of them, clearly have help from their spouses and just as clearly do most of household care.


One or two think burlesque shows are the height of sophisticated entertainment.

Many of the nurses in middle age like myself STILL don't self identify as feminist, thinking it a political label, while agreeing almost completely with the liberal feminist stance (I'm a radical feminist; it's the ideology I agree with most completely, although it was quite a shock to me to discover that's where I landed)
Again, on the other hand there is an very odd(to me) trend toward these eyelash extenders in a few 50 yer old women. I have to admit to being baffled on that one. I mean, why?

So it's not just the next generation, it's women everywhere. I look at it like the union movement. People reap the benefits of union activism without a clue or perhaps not a care, where the benefits came from

Most of all, these young women as well as the older, seem to be terrified of being considered unattractive. A species of body dismorphic syndrome affects every woman, in my opinion, to a certain degree. The misogynist media has done its work well. To call oneself a feminist means giving up femininity, whatever that's supposed to be.