*roll eyes*

[la_vie_noire]

Ugh. Today was the day of white, cis, able feminist (or progressive, whatever) women making me very uncomfortable.

Those naive ladies who think gender problems revolve around cis, white, rich, able-bodied women issues. And chose to ignore any unfortunate connotation that their critiques of "gender issues" of other people who are not rich, white, able or cis could have. Some people have a pervasive history of being oppressed by people like you. Things have a context, and some things are more complicated than the simple "you should be like me, the privileged woman who does everything by herself and acts by western/cis/white/able-bodied standards of empowerment."

My head hurts. Badly. Tomorrow will be a long day again.

ETA: What I also wanted to say is that power imbalances exist, and that a more powerful group of people "criticizing" and stereotyping a group that is historically oppressed by them is something that, in our power structures, has certain connotations and consequences that shouldn't be overlooked.

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[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

yeah, yeah, it may as well be. But sometimes I think is just plain naivety with privilege, not so very different from a rich white cis able guy. They will be progressive as long as nobody objects the system that benefit them. I have met a lot of ladies that the idea that some women have different concerns (like, wanting to survive, or feed their families before preoccupying themselves with WHITE MIDDLE CLASSED WESTERN SECOND WAVE FEMINIST THEORY) is so very alien and impossible to imagine for them.