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[–]Complicated-Spirit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Love it. I’ve always been struck by how the TRA movement tries to drive a wedge in feminism by divide-and-conquer: men (usually TiMs), who take it for granted that their words with be accepted as Gospel by women, tell black women that “You have more in common with us than them. They are against you. They always will be. We are your allies. Always choose us over them.”

By making feminism a game of white women on one side, and black and trans women on the other, they can create such problems within women’s ranks that they’re too busy arguing amongst themselves to notice the slow takeover of men into every sphere of their lives. On the one hand, black women are told “White women imposed femininity on you”; on the other, that same feminine stereotype - altered a bit by skin color and the drag queen’s personal taste, as mentioned in the article - is made out to be the “true” version of what a white woman, black woman, etc. really is.