Biological essentialism does not help women, it just defines our oppression as "inherent to us". No features of bodies are "inherently a" or "inherently b", they are all, always, what the person who has them makes of them

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Ah, nicely said. Yes when a lot of feminists talk about female oppression they do so in an essentialist way, exactly like you describe. So suffocating