midwesternperson
Midwesternperson
midwesternperson

I don't think we need to STFU though. Kara has tried having this conversation before, but I think we need to actually just discuss WOC's issues. Instead of being silent, discuss their issues, interview WOC, talk about what can be done. Re-tweet them. Don't lead the conversation, but follow it and just add to its

Thanks. I don't really mean to speak "for" you, but goddamn it, even in a post about white woman's privilege so many people were missing the goddamn point. It was like watching an obvious left turn on the highway, highlighted with fireworks and candles and gogo dancers singing "Hallelujah," and the car began drifting

I'm trying to focus the issue on and point out how we focus on white women. The conversation has, to this point, mostly been reflecting the other way. Kara even tried and got no where.

But it receives media attention and coverage at a far greater rate than black women do. What is more, these two things are not alike: what white women experience when raped and what black women (and latino women, and asian women) experience is very, very different. Inside POC communities rape has hella different

I think it is partly (and only partly) due to that photo. For some reason I first looked at that and thought "she is blonde?" A double take confirmed "nope, black woman."

Talk about issues that affect WOC. Interview them. Speak about their experiences. Don't make it about you.

You see, in your world, its "alienating" to want to talk about someone other than white women. Its "alienating" to not make you the center of attention.

Because there was already a coalition? There was already support? There was not.

Thank you. Hell, I don't even see a problem with speaking about women in other countries, or poor women or WOC in America even. Just do not speak "for" them. You can discuss something they have written, interview them, or just focus on their issues. That is "amplifying" their voice. Keep the conversation on them.

Respectability politics at its best.

Third Wave was supposed to be the response to the Second Wave. Lots of people felt that the Second Wave focused too much on the needs of middle to upper class professional white women, and left out poor people and women of color.

You completely missed the point. Its not "too many people talking." Its too many white voices over black ones. Over latino ones. Over asian. On and on.

Dude, but yah.

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Just chillaxin, what with this terror attack and all.

But that is just it. YOU ARE TAKING UP SPACE to talk about real issues and real dangers women face.

The problem is white women, who objectively have it pretty good, often drown out women of color and transgender women, who objectively have it way fucking worse.

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Then I hate to say this, but maybe your dog is just not that into you? Like, he knows where his bread is buttered (where his bones come out of the bag?), but just thinks that you are ok.