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[–]BEB 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's like the gender lobby insisting that TiMs were behind Stonewall (the event) - TiMs emphatically were not behind Stonewall.

Transgender activists attached themselves very deliberately to the gay rights movement in the late 1990s, so this nonsense that it was always LGBT, with T leading the way, is just that, nonsense.

And 2nd Wave feminism being rewritten as "White Feminism," like the genderists taking credit for Stonewall, is yet again an attempt to rewrite history to sew division, this time between women.

And it worked. I was watching MSNBC and some young black woman (author? college professor?) was talking about how white women had so horribly harmed black women and it was payback time (or something).

And I'm thinking - hey young lady, you do not know what you're talking about. Look at newspaper articles of the time. Talk to women who were actually around for 2nd Wave feminism. Read the books written by feminists of color and look at their achievements. Women across the color spectrum united and were effective because we were united.

That comedy duo, Two Dope Queens, two black women, also do this. They are very funny and seem to be really great women, but they go on about "white feminism" and again, I want them to look at the historical record.

In fact, it's borderline racist to deny the importance of black and other minority women in 2nd Wave feminism, because they should get credit for so much of what was achieved.

[–]MarkTwainiac 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In fact, it's borderline racist to deny the importance of black and other minority women in 2nd Wave feminism, because they should get credit for so much of what was achieved.

I'd say it's outright racist, not borderline racist.

The second-wave movement involved a huge number of women of all sorts - saying it was "white feminism," and middle-class white feminism to boot, is in effect centering and prioritizing white women who grew up well off.

It's akin to claiming that none of the diverse peoples in Asia, Africa and the Americas had a clue about biological sex and sex differences until about 500 years ago when white European colonialists starting showing up and introducing and imposing the idea that sex is real, and it's binary.

[–]BEB 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know - the "White Feminism" thing is bullshit - you and I were there during the 2nd Wave and we saw firsthand that women of all colors, and also socio-economic class, were behind 2nd Wave feminism.

Trans, Inc. wants to rewrite feminist history and divide women in any way they can, because they know that united, women are unstoppable