#jessa crispin

The refusal to experience the discomfort of real change, and this rejection of the radical feminist position, has led to what is called “choice feminism”. This is the belief that no matter what a woman chooses, from her lifestyle to her family dynamic to her pop culture consumption, she is making a feminist choice, just from the act of choosing anything. The idea is that under the more rigidly patriarchal past, women’s choices were made for them. So simply by choosing anything at all, you are bucking the patriarchy and acting like a feminist. This is what universal feminism, devoid of any real personal internal change, leads to. No debate, no consideration, no discomfort required. 

- Jessa Crispin, Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto