Choice, however, as necessary a foundation as it is for feminism, isn’t in itself inherently feminist because women can make choices that bolster the patriarchy and do not qualify, therefore, as feminist choices.
Equating feminism only with choice-making ability would, for instance, make social conservatives such as Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin feminist, even though many of the policies they choose endorse would culminate in the severe restriction of women’s rights. Feminism is first and foremost about men and women being equal, and though women who choose to write, produce, direct, or star in feminist porn are certainly free to make those choices, the very fact of choice and agency does not automatically make films featuring women as sex slaves feminist because images depicting women subjugated to men’s sexual desires, whatever the intention or impetus behind the creation of those images was, reinforce the patriarchy.
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