Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don’t want or they cannot feed.

Allende rebuts the claim that feminism has become obsolete by distinguishing between the relative gains enjoyed by affluent women and the ongoing, systemic coercion faced by many women globally. The rhetorical question (“Feminism is dated?”) frames a critique of complacency: what looks like “post‑feminism” from a position of privilege is not the lived reality for those subjected to child marriage, sexual exploitation, and economic compulsion. By listing concrete abuses—premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor, unwanted or unsupported motherhood—she grounds feminism not in abstract ideology but in urgent material conditions. The quote argues for a transnational, solidarity-based feminism attentive to class and geography, and it challenges audiences in safer contexts to recognize their responsibility toward those still denied basic autonomy.