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RE: On White Feminism

in #feminism7 years ago

It's all about awareness - and on intersectionality. So I'm curious about this part:
"the specific issues faced by women of color, women with disabilities, queer women, and so on."

I'm not saying "WELL WHAT ABOUT MEN" but if it's all about women, where is the intersectionality and equality?

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It's about lifting up the marginalized so all can be free. I talked a bit about that in my post about intersectionality. We focus on women over men, because women are more directly oppressed by patriarchy. Which is not to say men aren't. We are, but more indirectly. We focus on POC because of racism and the history of , colonialism and slavery. We focus on the disabled because of ableism. We focus more on those whose oppression is intersectional.

Few things though, it's easier to pick women on focus and ignore men because women dominate the "oppression" assumption. People assume women are more oppressed and this leads that only women are allowed to experience oppression.

In addition to this, treating "white people" as a single group is belittling. There are many white ethnic groups which have been oppressed harshly in the past and now are carrying the burden of blame for being white, while they come from oppressed cultures. There are plenty of cultures in which white people were sold as slaves too and their countries invaded by foreign cultures, but now instead quite many POC are only getting the focus because of the past of slavery and colonialism.

So you are saying "what about the mens" and "what about the whites." Which, well, is not the discussion I'm interested in having.

Of course you're not.

You are happy to close your eyes from real intersectionality and picking only the "easy" ones and belittling the suffering of others.

People like you are the reason why feminism is not about equality.

Oh and in addition, if you have any interest in topic, you can start with stuff like this:
https://mikedashhistory.com/2015/01/15/blonde-cargoes-finnish-children-in-the-slave-markets-of-medieval-crimea/

Don't treat white people as a single group.

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