Had a gripe earlier about misapplication of "choice Feminism" critiques but didn't really elaborate what my problem is.

Anarchists (and a lot of the anti authoritarian left) believe that systems of authority tend towards doing harm, and seek to produce societies based on consent
This isn't the view that all consent is equal, that we should submit to some laissez faire contract capitalist order whereby anyone can sell themselves into slavery or whatever.
It's based on a deep valuing of liberty and crucially critique of (for instance) the threat that large scale exploitative relations like those under capitalism present to any such liberty.
Liberal choice feminism fails where it focuses on state given rights to choice without consciousness of power (typical ones include support for sex industry erasing the wage exploitation, or repro choice stuff that doesn't account for classed and raced pressures towards eugenics)
The tradfem take here is to demand that the state should somehow intervene, mediate these power relations in women's best interests sometimes (say to prevent them from becoming surrogates) because they can't make free choices in patriarchal capitalism.
The anarchist critique is that it is the (patriarchal) state that already regulates the economy in such a way that working class women find themselves with few good options to feed their kids, to navigate ablist labour markets, etc.
Asking it to further intervene to protect the women it is actively harming through numerous means (most importantly protecting the interests of capital which lead to women's exploitation in the first place!) doesn't really seem likely to work.
Consent in anarchism isn't the liberal idea of free choice to starve or be exploited in the marketplace, and it never has been since the days anarchists were assassinating Victorian industrialists as their main revolutionary tactic.
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