agorahills on Nostr: 💜I'm reading The Myth Of Purity by Jessica Valenti. This book made me reflect on ...

💜I'm reading The Myth Of Purity by Jessica Valenti. This book made me reflect on female virginity. Control over women's bodies is nothing new. But I worry that in response to debauchery and hedonism, conservatives will use this as justifications to submit women into traditional gender roles. Sara Huff is a former feminist from Brazil and spends her time on social media promoting her book "how to be a virtuous woman."

💚She also makes discourses such as "femininity is natural, feminism is a social construct." "For a woman to be happy, she must submit to her husband." I stopped following her on Instagram. There are many women who follow her and who are falling into this trap. They speak badly of feminism and blame feminism for the erasure of women.

💜But I have never seen a conservative man or woman talking to a radical feminist. Conservatives ignore radical feminists but at the same time use them to distort feminism. But they do nothing to solve women's problems. The fact that I live in a conservative country does not encourage me to go out and vote. But transfeminism doesn't encourage me to vote either.


💚I have battled and continue to battle against the indoctrination of Christianity, deconstructing what I was forced to believe and I stopped having contact with christians family members. I don't like at all that conservatives want to subject women to traditional gender roles again based on a religion that considers women impure and sinful, responsible for the evil in the world.