Because you do not fix patriarchy with imperialism. Because refusing to listen to whether women we have historically oppressed is, by definition, oppressive.

This might blow your mind, but assuming Egyptian women need saving without even asking them what they think is bigoted.

1) It means when you "help" people, you need to listen to them on how and whether to help them at all. That's all I've advocated.

Thanks for reminding me and other posters to google things. It's not condescending at all.

1) Yes, our history of imperialism is extremely relevant to whether it's appropriate for us to speak on behalf of women of color. It's called intersectionality. You can be a well intentioned feminist and still end up being a tool of imperialism or racism. We have a LONG history of doing some violent shit to people…

Okaaaaaay.

It's another to say that we should completely withhold any judgment or sympathy on any issue involving other cultures (even on things as seemingly uncontroversial as "women should not be threatened with widespread sexual assault at protests"), because doing so is "speaking for" individuals of another culture.

You are making a whole lot of shit up I didn't say, and seem to be really intent on arguing that I am oppressing the dominant religion of the United States.

I'm speaking to you, now, since you've valiantly defended your right to speak about a subject you couldn't be bothered to google, and decided to just fabricate something whole cloth to defend your privilege. And I'm sorry to have to explain this to a grown person, but being a bigot isn't excused by not being in Egypt.

But America is a colonial power, and a strong and longtime ally with the UK and other colonial powers. We've personally destabilized the region by killing democratically elected leaders who might side with the USSR over us.

There's a difference between speaking on behalf of people and speaking for them. Speaking for minorities, no matter how well intended, is silencing. It perpetuates the myth that they can't or have not been speaking for themselves. Especially in the middle east, which has a badly oppressed (in some areas) but active…

You can. But in the same way men shouldn't enter every conversation about sexism because it denies women a voice, white women shouldn't enter every conversation about women from another culture, especially when those women can and do speak for themselves.

It's more than fine to publicize and stand behind local pro-choice advocates. The problem is when we decide to speak on behalf of those women.

Evangelical Christians are people I share a culture with, yeah. I am not one, but what they do effects me. And, more importantly, white people and white feminists have a bad history of trying out their white savior complex on people of color. It's a form of oppression. Comparing the colonial oppression of people…

It does not get a "pass." But, you know, we aren't of that culture. It's not that other cultures get a pass at all, but it's not our house to clean or set the rules for. We can't barge in, impose our values on them, and then pretend we're doing them a favor.

I think it's time for Joyce to step away from the keyboard and let Islamic feminists do their own writing.

I'm not even sure people fake interest in something. Some people just have a shallow knowledge but a lot of enthusiasm. Especially people who come to fandom relatively late.

Satire depends entirely on the context. The sticker doesn't come with any context. It's just as easily used to be a dick as it is for satire.

I think an insult that hurts disabled people is whole lot worse than one that hurts smart people who like things.

Welcome to almost everyone in high school, and life after it.