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I feel like in a modern context, "feminism" is inapplicable. While there has never been a female US President, what does Barack Obama buy Blacks in America? Tokenist identity achievements have been disproven by an ineffective and lazy neoliberal elite in terms of advancing "where they came from." There are more prominent, professional, relevant women in the rightwing recasting of "having it all" over on the trad-wife side, which has been ironic since Phyllis Schlafly, but has never had a bad day, and isn't having one now...
This feels dismissive of feminism, and seems to miss the point by citing a bunch of examples that are anti-feminist. You're getting caught up in political drama and missing that this is a life philososophy that can underpin how any one person fundamentally treats others and that exists independently of current events. The question is, are you a feminist?