I think apathetic women don't deserve my advocacy: Feminist Advice Friday paid subscriber bonus

A reader is burned out from advocating for women who don't seem to care about their own fates.

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A reader asks…

What is the best way to engage [American] women that are politically apathetic despite their rights having been taken away, and are still being eroded?

This is a huge problem amongst women, even those that are left-learning. I am a "bull in the China shop" type of person, though I know logically the best way to catch flies is with honey and my often abrasive personality is not received well.

My first instinct is to call them handmaids and inform them their complacency is complicity, but obviously that shuts down the conversion before it even begins. I am also a person that "gets shit done" and I find it difficult to continue to advocate for people that appear near completely apathetic about the very real potential loss of their own rights.

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