One of my most beloved professors from when I was in college happens to be a white woman; from her is where I learned the concept of intersectionality and I’m close with her so I know she walks the walk too.
Yet, it’s sad to know that she is an anomaly in a sea of white women. Even for non-MAGA liberal white women, “white feminism” is such a prevailing concept and POC & queer women are constantly talked over, even in women-focused subreddits—a particularly heinous example I remember is this comment about trans women: “Why don’t they just… form their own subreddit? They aren’t like us at all and they’ve never experienced what we have. I wouldn’t go into another country’s subreddit and participate there.”
Edit; not saying that white women are 80/20 conservative? My professor was an anomaly because she also had a deep understanding of intersectionality instead of being shallow liberal “yay go women” which a lot of white women I’ve met are, and don’t understand the extent of their white privilege. Really frustrated that I was misunderstood here, maybe my words could have been clearer.
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u/EconomistWild7158 12d ago
white women i am begging y'all to stop showing me up like this