Intersectionalism is the worst thing to happen to feminism.

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[–]censorshipment 41 insightful - 2 fun41 insightful - 1 fun42 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This is why the GC subreddit was not only reported by TRAs but also black women (such as the blackladies sub mods and members). There is a thread on lipstickalley about the GC sub where although they agree that trans women are men, they also saw the GC sub as racist. Black women cannot exclude antiblack racism from our feminism. We are black first, women second, in the world.

As I pointed out on the gc_woc sub before it was banned... first wave feminism started after the anti-slavery movement... abolitionists became suffragists... and then second wave feminism started after the civil rights movement... civil rights activists became second-wave feminists. You cannot remove racism from feminism... black women started the movements.

Just like Stormé DeLarverie started the Stonewall riots.

With that said... I don't support intersectional feminism lol it's too messy, and educated/upper middle class women never listen to uneducated/poor women regardless of race/ethnicity. In my little city, there are two black feminist groups divided by class. It's sad but necessary because the educated black women are so uppity and conservative.

Feminism needs the Fannie Lou Hamer type of activist... she scared a feared president, Lyndon B. Johnson. A powerful white man feared an angry black woman. Fannie started a new Democratic party in Mississippi since white Democrats were racists.

https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/27-the-sixties/fannie-lou-hamer-testimony-at-the-democratic-national-convention-1964/

https://blavity.com/blavity-original/nobodys-free-until-everybodys-free-fannie-lou-hamers-legacy-is-more-important-now-than-ever

At a 1971 National Women's Political Caucus event, she gave one of her most famous speeches titled  “Nobody's Free Until Everybody's Free."

"Now, we've got to have some changes in this country. And not only changes for the black man, and only changes for the black woman, but the changes we have to have in this country are going to be for liberation of all people — because nobody's free until everybody's free,” she told the crowd.

“And this is something that should have been done for a long time because a white mother is no different from a black mother. The only thing is they haven't had as many problems. But we cry the same tears and under the skin, it's the same kind of red blood," she added.

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[–]Complicated-Spirit 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I agree that privileged/upper class people never listen to those they consider lower class. It’s funny, because they’re always speaking for them. It’s the educated, Masters-Degree-Possessing libfems of both sexes who started telling women of all colors that their feminism wasn’t real feminism unless it included transwomen; who decided - with zero input or impetus from the Latino community - that the term “Latino” was passé, and needed to be replaced by “Latinx”, and also that “Latinx” needed to be explicitly acknowledged as a Latin adjective “for all genders”; that symbolic acts and gestures were more important than resolving pay gaps and reducing needless debts; that this art and architecture was good, and that art and architecture was bad (even if everyone else who actually had to live with it every day felt differently - what do those peasants know?); that it was their job to speak, and everyone else’s job to listen. Never the other way around, unless you were trying to get a photograph for a campaign mailer, in which case one could fake listening for a few seconds.