Geek Feminism Wiki   999pages on this wiki     Choice feminism
Edit  The term "choice feminism" is sometimes used as shorthand
for the attitude that women should be able to make any choice
they want, and that doing so is automatically feminist. For
example, "I'm a woman and I choose to be a stay-at-home mother.
It's my choice, and I made it freely, therefore it's feminist."
Or to give a geek example, "I'm a woman and I choose to cosplay
Slave Leia, so that's feminist."   Feminists have pointed out
that although women can choose a wide variety of things these
days, not all those choices are equal. Some are harder to make
because there is more pushback against them. When women have a
hard choice and an easy choice, they often choose the easier
one, for very good reasons. This ties back to the idea that
"women don't choose to go into computing" or whatever. The
choices they have available to them aren't equally easy to
choose, and so it's not a fully free choice.  Although it is
wrong to say that any choice a wo