Intersectional feminism is failing Indian women

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[–]Nayenezgani 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

They claim it is necessary to include other axes of oppression like caste, class, ethnicity in the analysis of “gendered” oppression, lest feminist analysis becomes limited to upper-caste or white women.

Anti-racism was a MRA movement all along. Left-wing MRAs say that racism is really just covert misandry. What that really means, though, is that prejudice is the only way males can admit male defects. Rape is only a problem to males if they can accuse other groups of males that they don't like -- Syrian refugees, Catholic priests, and so on -- of being rapists.

If males were not racist to each other then they would mobilize against females as a class. I never cared about racism but now I care even less when I realized that. Racism is one of the few ways I can make myself socially superior to a male, not to mention racist comedy is pretty funny.

Edit: Wrong word.

[–]BiologyIsReal[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Women are affected by racism and other non sex-based forms of opression, too. Honestly, I don't think we can talk about prostitution and surrogacy without also adressing class, ethnicity and imperialism because it's the more oppressed women who are more likely to be affected by them.

I think the real reason "intersectional feminisnm" fails women it's because their advocates (who often come from a more privileged background) have the same interest in advancing other causes than they do in advancing feminism, i.e. zero. At best, it's all virtue signalling. At worst, it's a Trojan horse.

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    [–]soundsituation 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Well stated. I honestly believe that intersectionality is the most strategically brilliant and evil idea to emerge from the late 20th century. It takes a simple, easily understood truth and fashions it into a rubric that determines social position based on superficial identity categories. That's no accident, either - in Mapping the Margins Kimberle Crenshaw basically admits that it's not so much the case that racism and other -isms are a problem, but rather that we just haven't been applying them correctly. It's a power-grab that emboldens the most controlling and attention-seeking types of people and doesn't actually help the groups it pretends to champion.