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[–]Complicated-Spirit 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is revisionism, and it’s dangerous, not only in that it’s denying reality on a biological level, but also participates in the idealization/fetishization of non-white cultures just as it it demonizes colonialism as being responsible for the concept of male and female (seriously, wtf).

As such, not only is it painting a picture that never really was, but it’s also denying the existence of sex-based oppression in non-white societies, instead preferring an invented, ahistorical narrative in which everything was perfect until white people showed up. When the element of white/colonial/European/Christian/etc. influence is removed, it follows, then those cultures can be all happy and peaceful and wonderful again.

It’s the same reasoning that can make someone look at a traditionalist Catholic woman in a church with a head covering and sneer at how patriarchy rules her, while at the same time cheer on a Muslim woman in a hijab for “empowering” herself with it. Since “gender-based” violence is so utterly entrenched in whiteness and Westernhood, if the Muslim woman is oppressed at all, it’s due to vestigial traces of Euro-centric influence in her life. The women and girls who actually live under these non-white societal structures that treat women so harshly need only be patted on the head, while their woke “allies” explain to them, like one would to a child, that it’s not their men’s fault, it’s the fault of men on the other side of the world. And if they get too loud in their protestations, then they need to be silenced.