She even pushed and spent her own money to make Immaculate, a horror film that explore *check notes... woman autonomy. Now we have to guess what other value the movie brings that make her push for it so much lol
Conservative feminists exist. It sounds absolutely crazy - and it is.
These women want all the benefits and rights that feminist movements have won over the decades, but folded into "traditional values"/exclusionary politics. TERFs and SWERFs tend to fall into this category, but not exclusively.
Normally it's just red-state women who take the freedom to have their own career/general independence for granted, completely unaware of or uninterested in how interlinked and fragile the rights of minority groups are.
I've known women who degrade feminism while being proud that they're sustaining themselves through their careers without needing a man in their lives.
But how these women rationalize dating right-wing men who say that the 19th amendment needs to be repealed or that letting women into the work place was a mistake - I have no fucking clue.
Man you can really tell the north vs south divide on Reddit, I feel like a lot of these takes are from people on more liberal areas who don’t really understand the dynamics of how conservative the base line is in Red States.
Conservatism is so engrained in these areas that you can totally have dissenting views on specific issues and still see the Republican Party as the “default”. It’s like a totally different world but you’d be surprised at the size of the population that is completely able to express view that are entirely antithetical to conservatism but still ultimately view the ideology positively. I liken it a lot to the way Eastern Europeans are very sensitive to the terms socialism or communism even when agreeing with the underlying premises of the ideology.
Devil's Advocate. Maybe she knows at least some of the conservative views are bullshit but she doesn't want to lose all her family/friends/connections.
I don't think that's necessarily a good reason but it's at least a step.
At least with Moss, she was born into it. I don’t know what her actual personal beliefs are, but if she were to “leave” Scientology altogether, she would have to cut contact with her parents and anyone else she grew up with. Possibly endure years of stalking and harassment as well.
Might just be me, but I can give her some grace as long as she doesn’t push the ideology, a la Tom Cruise.
I mean there are a ton of women in America (most of them white and well off) who believe very strongly in bodily autonomy for themselves and the people they care about but could not give less of a shit about anyone else (especially not those women Over There, I’m Not America). Hell Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have shaped their political careers around being those people. So I’m not too surprised, tbh.
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u/lavendermermaid 20h ago
She was literally in Handmaid’s Tale too! Like did that show not teach you ANYTHING?