Equal attention
A pull quote I strongly disagree with.
"Feminism without intersectionality—in other words, without sensitivity and equal attention to other nexuses of discrimination and oppression, such as race and sexuality—is worthless."@CharoShane on why we must hold feminism to a higher standard.
— Literary Hub (@lithub) October 11, 2018
“Feminism without intersectionality—in other words, without sensitivity and equal attention to other nexuses of discrimination and oppression, such as race and sexuality—is worthless.”
Bollocks.
Feminism is feminism. It’s about resistance to and elimination of the subordination of women. Its attention is for that. Intersectionality is about awareness that there are other forms of oppression and subordination, all of which can affect women; it is not about giving equal attention to all forms of oppression and subordination.
I keep saying this, but I suspect it needs to be said more times than there are atoms in the universe: isn’t it interesting how it’s only feminism that is constantly shouted at for not shifting its attention to everything except its own oppression. Isn’t it just a classic illustration of why feminism is needed in the first place. Isn’t it interesting the way the entire world expects women to be the caretaking class and thus feminism to be the self-abnegating rebellion.
In short, fxck off.
And even if they do allow you to talk about feminism, you must wait until you’ve talked about the “other nexuses of oppression” first. Women must come at the bottom of the list, always and forever. We must solve every other problem in the world before we can even think about feminism. And since we’ll never solve many of those problems? Well….
In other words the hypothetical collapses because they never do allow you to talk about feminism.
Yep. Just like when I try to talk about the environment. “There’s a war on” “What about the economy?” “Western colonialism” “post-modernist structural nonsense” “it doesn’t effect me”
Always something. I suspect part of it is that sexism and the environment are two of the hardest problems to solve, both because of social systems built into our structure of functioning that we absorb non-stop from birth, and because they have begun to appear natural and unchangeable to people. So they throw up their hands, point to the nearest shiny object or squirrel (war – economy – post-modernist structural nonsense, etc) and go about their way, content that they are focusing on important things first.
Well, sure, if you want to be a dictionary feminist…
Think of this as Feminism+!
(I’ll see myself out.)
That’s the second time you’ve made me laugh in the past couple of days. You’re getting the hang of things!
‘Intersectionality’ is a guarantee of futility. EVERY subject must be turned into some sort of personal diatribe. Everything must always be about whatever ‘MEEEEE’ is speaking at the moment. So, for example, HAMAS showing up at Black Lives Matter, or Women’s March, events is shrugged off as ‘intersectional.’