Feminism is not about choice. It's not about respecting other people's choices, either. It's not about a 'sisterhood' of people who unquestioningly support each other on no other basis than their shared sex. Its various platforms have been a site some of the most bitter contestations I've seen of any umbrella group of social movements. And they continue to be so to this day. You only have to read the FWR board on Mumsnet to see that.
It's because so many of these battles have been fought that the right to the 'choice' so many people wrongly assume is all feminism is about, exists in the first place. The strident anti-suffrage campaign is a case in point. Why oh WHY would any woman with all her marbles intact get on board with a cause like that? Would I respect and support such a sisterhood? Like hell, would I.
We'll also have got away extremely lightly if equality of titles does end up being all we have to worry about. A currently serious and pressing issue is that of the redefinition and sometimes straight-up erasure of women as an entire sex-class.
Anyone else happy with being a 'Menstruator?' Reduced to nothing more than the shape and function of your genitalia? Me neither. Yet there are some misguided (IMO) liberal feminists out there who claim no one who doesn't support this can be called a 'feminist'. And as far as I'm concerned, they can kiss mine.
Feminism is as splintered and fractured as it's always been, and perhaps has gone full-circle to becoming more so in the past 5 years, having previously gained some temporary, uneasy equilibrium following the second wave.
A sisterhood, it ain't. And it never was.