You don't get it. I'm not against people being philanthropic. I'm against people who use that argument to derail a conversation. If you're not concerned with sexist microaggressions because violent misogyny exists and we should only be focused on that, then you don't really care about sexism. The microaggressions are…

No. That is not correct. What is alienating is when you say that "white women are the problem" or "No one cares about your white woman fee fees, brah".

Men have the advantage of bodily autonomy, first of all. Second of all, when women have to put off pursuing their educations or their careers to raise a kid, that does in fact advantage the men who will never be put in that position.

I think she does. Because all people will talk about now in the mass media is how Maisie Williams thinks Emma Watson was wrong and turn it into this subtle catfight rather than talk more in depth about how/why Maisie thinks other women have it worse. I don't deny that women in other nations have different and more…

Like that teacher who got suspended for being in *Kenya*, even though that's basically an entire America away from Ebola?

You've got a good point, some people have already pointed out (negatively) that she only cares about issues she's familiar with - bullying and breast cancer awareness. Beyond the fact that Emma Watson's UN speech was still necessary for people to hear, I'm not sure I think Maisie's opinion added anything to the…

I think there are two different arguments there. The first is that contemporary feminism isn't intersectional enough, and prioritizes the voices and problems faced by privileged women over those of women who aren't so privileged. (This is an argument I agree with, personally.) But it doesn't sound like that's what…

You're pretty much proving my point. When people are traveling to more than one European country for a certain time period, they say they're going to Europe. When people are traveling to France, they say they're traveling to France. On the contrary, when people are going to Nigeria, they say they're going to Africa.…

I disagree. There was an episode of M*A*S*H that has stuck with me for decades that addresses this. (I know, I'm quoting a sitcom — stick with me here.) A helicopter pilot is selling trinkets that little kids are risking their lives to get. He pays them pennies and sells the items for big money; meanwhile, the kids…

Yes I have and I thought it was wonderful! We need to change the narrative we have of Africa in this country, and for fuck's sake, can we acknowledge the countries in Africa by name? I hate when people say "I'm going to Africa!" WHERE in Africa? When someone goes to France, no one says, "I'm going to Europe!" They say…

They zero out.

Wait, you said that "white women have it objectively better than a lot of men of color .... [and] a lot of white men as well," but now you can't with "inane oppression olympics"? LOL okay. You sure look like you care about gender discrimination.

What does that say about me? That I don't care about poverty? Or that I think it's important for human beings to care about a multitude of issues instead of wasting their life participating in oppression olympics? Because as an expert on myself, the latter is what I believe in than the former.

Who do you think has it better, a millionaire black movie star or a white male steelworker in a rust belt city? Okay, now does that nonsense point mean that there's no such thing as racism or that black people have it better than whites? No, it does not. It means nothing and is meant to derail any discussion of…

it's easy though. And predictably feminine to blame other women. Much easier to blame white women and claw at other women. Ignore the small small percentage of women in power at all. It's the .05% of women, white women who have been promoted, who have been voted into office, or that single white phd woman you know…

But I don't disagree with that. I basically implied that Emma Watson's speech was tone deaf, but I also think people who use the "starving African kids" argument are tone deaf as well.

"Significant" is subjective. Some people don't think sexism is an important issue...when it is.

If you're going to make "it's worse for other people in other places," I expect you to immediately follow it up with HOW it's worse, WHERE it's worse, WHO it's worse for and maybe even go into the WHY and how you can make a difference. Otherwise you're not doing anything helpful. Talk about why XYZ is "worse" or "more…

Annie Lamott talked about this once on Facebook, and I loved the way she put it: "Pain is pain." (Or maybe it was "suffering is suffering"?)

Hmm, there's a lot to be said about this. On one hand, I agree that mainstream feminism focuses more on issues that primarily effect upper middle class white women. I remember reading an article on xoJane where a woman of color complained about the lack of intersectionality in Emma Watson's speech and the article was…