Communities that face barriers
Interesting ploy in this one – mention racism but scrupulously refrain from mentioning sexism…when talking about an issue that is precisely about women and not men.
We can talk about racism and “discrimination”…but not sexism or discrimination against specifically women. We can’t ever ever ever talk about women and injustice against women. That would be transphobic.
And etc, etc, etc. And all else besides the antitransphobic herd of antitransphobic elephants in the antitransphobic room. Am I making myself clear? Oh, yes; and as for genuine XX women; no mention of, please; not even sotto voce while wearing a disguise. Someone non-antitransphobic might overhear.
Brave new world?
Here is a really charming video about the one of the differences between men and women–daily menstrual cramps–but it is fucking RUINED at the end by the text talking about PEOPLE WITH PERIODS.
No, motherfuckers. This is about teaching MEN about the shit WOMEN have to put up with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuiWm2Lb-hk&t=181s
Of course, that’s because there is no such thing as a poor white woman; all white women are middle class, unless of course they are rich. Scratch that. All white women are rich.
I do agree that BIPOC women encounter issues not dealt with by white women, and that lesbians deal with issues not dealt with by straight women. Those are able to be dealt with by recognizing that they are all women and including the reality of their lives in the concept of women.
POOR women face the problem worst; a higher percentage of BIPOC women deal with poverty. That does not erase the reality. A rick black woman can get an abortion much more easily than a poor white women. It is poverty, not race, that is the dividing line, though of course race is a huge contributor to poverty.
We lose the narrative when we refuse to talk about women…as a class. Even rich white women will suffer from this, because it erodes rights for women. It’s just that they won’t likely need the help that other women need, and Planned Parenthood isn’t their preferred provider. They don’t need PP. But when I have been in places like PP or the Health Department, the huge number of white women is stunning…because the news likes to pretend that poverty is a race issue only, and nothing to do with a class issue.
There’s a strange (but interesting) corner of the Twitterverse that came up with a great term for this – Inverse Benthamism. “[H]arms to the many are only legible … if framed as harms to a minority”
https://mobile.twitter.com/wesyang/status/1547994174300905481
I read this stuff about “people with periods”, and I read about trans-identified men who claim their “HRT therapy” (read: cross-sex hormones for cosmetic reasons) gives them monthly cramps therefore “periods”, and I want to run screaming into the night.
NSFW
Proof that trans women are women.
https://i.postimg.cc/qMRTWcz8/FTmak-Zia-AAAl-NAY.jpg
Rev, if only they’d changed the labels on one to lady glans, lady testicle, lady corpus callosum etc… missed opportunity.
One of the many things Critical Social Justice can’t deal with is variation within an identity group. If a predicate is true for a group, then it is true for all members of the group; if false, then false. The interesting thing, though, is that they don’t accept contraposition as a valid rule of inference. That is, one should be able to infer that if something is not true for all members of a group, then it is not true for the group. Thus there can be no evidence that acts as counterexample to attribution of a predicate. White people are privileged, therefore all white people are privileged, and any person you put forward as an unprivileged white is actually privileged.
Another thing that CSJ can’t abide is the notion that a putatively privileged group might face challenges not faced by a “marginalized” one. If upper class, straight, white women have experiences not shared by lower class, black lesbians, then that presents a problem for standpoint epistemology: the privileged person has knowledge inaccessible to the marginalized person and is entitled to speak and be heard.
Combine both these conceptual anathemas, and you get the silencing, vilification, and erasure of women in the name of justice.
Oh, also: There’s very little that rings as false and hollow as a declaration of passion in a fundraising request.