Well look at it this way: If someone gave you a Che Guerva T-shirt would you wear it?
Why or why not?
- Exactly
The difference is the purpose: product Vs ideal. . . but in the end it boils down to appealing to someone's ideals in order to sell either an ideal or a product.
The difference is that in one case the manufacturer is taking a direct active role in promoting the ideology in order to sell the product. No corporation has directly advocated the rise of communism and fall of capitalism in order to sell Che T shirts. But corporations have directly done so with feminism, and that's the difference.
It's all a matter of taking advantage of an ideology to sell a product.
Feminism existed.
They merely used it.
They didn't create feminism.
Communism exists.
They merely used it.
They didn't create communism.
To a marketer: it's all the same. "Who can become a consumer if we appeal to their interest?"
I doubt very seriously if you will see a large corporation start advocating the rise of communism and the rise of capitalism as they have done with feminism.
You never know. I wouldn't put it past them. Why wouldn't they?
They exploit race and gender - why not sociological ideals? If our country becomes more split regarding our ideology then you'll likely see companies choosing sides.
You have to consider scale: suddenly they had a market with MILLIONS of non-users at their disposal. Honestly: it was probably one of the msot wise business decisions they could have made.
So imagine if we fractured ideologically and MILLIONS of Americans were suddenly aligning their selves with Feudalism . . . I bet your sweet bippy you'd see it everywhere.
....you really didn't read what I posted in my first post here. I'll repeat it - you're talking about Imaginary Feminism, not the real thing.
Imaginary Feminism is monolithic.
This is very important. Anything said by anyone calling themselves a feminist can be assumed to be true of anyone else calling themselves a feminist. Some random thing Andrea Dworkin said in 1973 is tattooed on all IF's chests backward so they can read it in the mirror. All IFs simultaneously subscribe to the beliefs of Valerie Solanas, Catharine McKinnon, Betty Dodson, Phyllis Schlafly, Twisty Faster, and that person who wrote those weird articles about Firefly. Or, I mean, all the beliefs you know about. Don't feel over-pressured to actually learn anything about these people.
Can you prove that none did? From several decades ago?
The core of feminism is not against the objectification of women - indeed, as I just said, there are those feminists who would say that objectifcation is fine as long as it is by choice (of course, there are other feminists who would disagree). The core of feminism is equality.
See Aunt Spiker's post.
Feudalism is one thing, communism is quite different. Advocating the rise of communism would be suicide for large corporations.
You might think so - and for some it might be. But for others it might just play right into monopolizing the population for sales of various things.
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