Intersectionality! I'm not sure if you're familiar with it but it seems very relevant to what you're talking about. Also, interlocking systems of oppression - we are not oppressed based on one of our identities alone. It's not that a Black woman would be oppressed by her gender alone. Or her race alone. She faces an…

And who has agreed with him on those points?

Ok. I see what you're saying. I'm cool with welcoming people, but if they have privilege in that space then they need to be humble. That's my stipulation. If a white person wants to be an ally, that's great. But they need to be humble - recognize their privilege and all that it means, be willing to listen and learn,…

Yup. Happens a lot here on Jezebel (and other feminist spaces). I think as you've mentioned in one (or many :) ) of your comments, white feminists/women always need to make it about them. So many of them just can't listen and learn, they need to inject themselves in a space where they do not belong.

Part of problem is also a complete ignorance of intersectionality and how oppressions interact differently for different women and inform their lives differently. Many white feminists assume that their struggles are our struggles, but that is just not the case. I mean, any time there is a story post on Jezebel about…

Yes, that is exactly what I said.

I haven't read all the comments so forgive me if I repeat something someone else has said, but your comment got me thinking. One of things about feminists of colour is that we're also very sensitive about white feminists throwing Men of Colour under the bus to try to build solidarity with us. Basically using racism to…

It's not culturally accepted to shoot guns? In the US? Are you serious?? The US is a gun culture.

Stop trying to put equal blame on everyone. As I said earlier to your comment, we live in a white supremacist system. That means that People of Colour have the white POV shoved down our throats all the time. We get it. We know it. We understand it very well. We have to deal with it every single day. It's etched into…

You're a white person living in a white supremacist system. Work to dismantle that system. There are plenty of anti-racist and anti-oppression groups out there - talk to them to find out what to do. Read some bell hooks, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, etc. That'll give you a sense of what POC are up against. There is no…

And many other places, including the US.

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Idiot.

Xenophobes love to exploit these stories to assert their own (white, western) supremacy.

Depending on your cultural context. It's an Arabic name and very obviously male to those of us who are familiar with Arabic names. To me it sounds very masculine.

Obama has a nasty habit of throwing Black people under the bus and talking down to them. Kanye has a very high awareness of race issues in the US and therefore the media just wants to make him out to be "crazy" to invalidate his observations of rampant racism. Obama wants to do the same thing for fear of being seen as…

Being racist, no matter how, is a form of oppression. You DO oppress racial minorities.

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Ditto. I'm 34 as well and have had greys since my early 20s. My roots are grey and I don't dye them on a regular basis. My hair grows too fast and I'd by dying it every 2 - 3 weeks,which is expensive. So I often go out with the same look as Kate - grey roots in a sea of dark hair. Sometimes it does bother me - I like…

Yes! Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Interesting. I didn't know about her connections. But then, if she's concerned, then why not just keep quiet about it? I think, unfortunately, these are her views.

Celine Dion is also an ignorant bigot. I was never a fan of hers, but now...ugh!