how do you manage the hopelessness?
hello! im 20f, have been a feminist all my life, growing more and more radical as i aged. i read theory, consider myself a gender abolitionist, am pursuing university education.
my opinions are all in order and i believe in them, but going outside makes me realise that nothing will ever achieve any significant change during our lifetimes.
i was watching a random movie (the last duel 2021) and i was just so overcome with hopelessness. its been known to be a more “feminist” movie (obviously in a very liberal and surface-level way) but it just filled me with rage.
its set during charles vi’s france, so a period piece. but how is life much different when in courts women are still told that “if it was truly rape, the female body has ways of shutting down” (actual thing that i heard happen a few years ago, and im drawing a parallel to a priest in the movie telling the heroine that “since she got pregnant, which she can only do if she experiences pleasure, there was no way it was rape. rape cannot cause pregnancy”)
one less radical than me might argue that “its good that these movies exist because it raises awareness”. to what? most people would watch it and say “thank god times are better now”.
i just wish the planet got insta nuked. no significant change is going to happen during our lifetimes, not when every single thing in the world is working against us. no matter how much i mind my business and live a good life, anything can happen at any time at the hands of a man. no matter how successful i might become, it wont matter for womens liberation in the long run.
how do you manage these deep feelings of hopelessness? genuine question i need advice