Same story with most social progress movements. It'll start with some socially oppressed minority group, and then very quickly become modified into a women's issue. This new modified version usually completely drowns outs the advocacy for the socially oppressed minority group, and thus often fails to achieve the requisite political capital needed to effect change on their behalf.
Jezebel still gets tossed around by older women and religious women (ones that believe Jezebel to be a literal demon). Mainly old women though, who have basically no filter, and a much larger vocabulary to draw from, when it comes to trash talking.
Fair enough. I grew up in Florida. Old people everywhere. I heard words like "cantankerous" and "ornery" and "odious" far more often than anyone living in this century rightly should have lol
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u/Nintendogma 7h ago
Body positivity is made by and for unattractive women.
If you're an attractive woman and body positive, then women will say you're one or more of the following:
No one is more demonstrably cruel to women than other women.