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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    [–]Anonimouse 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I will say, when I went to a disability rights conference, I heard about feminism before disability. Intersectionality was pointing out that disabled women are significantly more likely to be abused and have many more barriers to leaving. Intersectionality, like most theory, can be used in a good or a bad way. Right now, it acts as a distraction to hide the universal women's issues. Though I think there is an argument that it is more a symptom of the trans infiltration of "feminism" more than intersectionality. Trans involvement meant women's issues are now exclusionary.