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Rich white women
It’s important to see the white feminist pushback against intersectionality not in isolation, but rather in the historical context of establishment clampdowns on the black struggle.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
The problem is that a feminism that prioritizes the individual will always, at its core, be at odds with a feminism that prioritizes the collective. The problem is that it is so easy today for a woman to seize upon an ideology she believes in and then exploit it, or deploy it in a way that actually runs counter to that ideology. That is in fact exa
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Because liberalism sought to remove social expectations from identity categories—black people being expected to do menial jobs, women being expected to prioritize domestic and parenting roles, and so on—and make all rights, freedoms, and opportunities available to all people regardless of their identity, there was a strong focus on the individual a
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
All of this paints a disturbing picture insofar as it tells us that feminist radicals have to fight other feminists and capitalism at the same time. But the recognition of what I propose we call “enemy feminism” is also liberating, because it means we can skip the stage of “calling in” people who are plainly more interested in upholding a version o... See more
Sophie Lewis • TERF Island - Lux Magazine
What does it mean for your feminist politics to be strangled, stoppered, and hindered by whiteness?