Woman studies feminism, and is red pilled by feminists

This went the opposite way of my expectations. Ideological feminism has, as women have advanced in society, gone from a mass movement to a niche academic interest. Millions of women were invested in getting the vote and being treated as equals in the workplace. They simply are not as excited to conquer microaggressions. In the same way we take voting and trial by jury as natural parts of our government, women today don't think much about the ideological underpinnings of statements like “men and women are equal before the law.” These were once revolutionary ideas, but to us they are simply how our society operates.

Without normies, academic feminism becomes, like a sitcom character, an increasingly insular exercise, counting angels on the head of a pin. What's amusing here is that unlike many experiences studying Women's Studies, this woman appears to have had a very normal interaction with her peers. Her thoughts are the kind of lunatic bullshit that only a completely propagandized person would spout:

For example, in an open discussion on beauty standards and their impacts, most of the class agreed that they were unfairly imposed on women. Despite this, when I posed that idea of collectively abandoning them to challenge the patriarchy, half the class went silent and others became angry.

“Let's look like shit on purpose for abstract, ideological reasons” is obviously a stupid suggestion. But she is too committed to the bit to detect her own absurdity. Meanwhile, her classmates are bored or even upset by this idea. Who would want to look like shit on purpose? If women derive genuine enjoyment from skincare or whatever, why should they give it up? They don't understand: this woman's perspective is like one of those self-destructive wingcuck types on Twitter. The point is not to be happy, it's to make your enemies suffer.

The key insight is that, for these super-invested types, the actual experiences and feelings of living women are irrelevant. If your idea actually makes women feel hideous and unloved and miserable, well, who cares? Your idea is beating up the enemy idea. The idea of women is more important to these types than the actual experiences of living, breathing women. These kinds of situations actually drive women away from academic feminism and make it yet more insular and detached, and the feedback cycle continues.