Just a quick little 101 for you guys because sometimes I want to do some educationing/talking.
“White Feminism” is not an umbrella term for feminism that only embraces white women. “White feminism” is a term for feminism that is not intersectional which means that it excludes women of color, disabled women, queer women, trans women, lower class, ect.
As I understand it, intersectional feminism embraces all women including and especially those who are women of color, LGBT, disabled, lower class, trans, or queer.
I point this out because it is so important to not turn feminism into an oppression olympics. It’s harmful to the cause to try and decide which women have more important stories or to compare women of color to disabled women in terms of hardship or queer women to lower class women. They all face very very diverse, different struggles but they are all important facets and stories to feminism. They are all women.
Your feminism, whatever it is labeled, should be as diverse and inclusive as possible and not prioritize the needs or stories of any group of another. I see a lot of hostility come up when people start getting angry about WOC vs. Queer women or things of that nature and both are so, so important to a diverse feminism. Remember when you are protecting, supporting, and uplifting one minority group, to do your best not to simultaneously stomp out another or hush their voices. We’re all guilty of that. As a white, queer woman I am guilty of prioritizing LGBT stories and voices as they are closest to me. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t get priority when it’s their time but it means reminding myself that there are other women and other voices. I’ve also felt my voice as a queer woman be stomped out by other groups who prioritize their struggles.
I’ve found so far that one of the most important, simple things to do in being a feminist woman is to listen to the voices around you, even if you think you disagree with them. Listen to the women in your world, all of them. And take as much empathy as you can with you into the discussion. Understanding that this is a movement that involves all of us and is important to all of us is important.
‘“White Feminism” is not an umbrella term for feminism that only embraces white women’
Except for it literally is??? It’s a term created by WOC to acknowledge how much of the feminist movement has excluded them, their struggles and their experiences and ignored the contributions of non white feminists.
Congrats on creating a definition of white feminism which deprioritises WOC which, ironically, is an incredibly White Feminist thing to do
“WOC vs. queer women” right, because QWOC (such as myself) don’t exist!
“I’ve also felt my voice as a queer woman be stomped out by other groups who prioritize their struggles.” Nice subtle (not so subtle) attack on the many WOC who have called you out on your blatant racism and white feminism. Nice villainizing WOC who “prioritize their struggles”, which, by doing so, they have never thrown lgbtq+ women (would be nice if you didn’t use a slur as an umbrella term, fyi) under the bus, like you have with POC. In fact many people who have called you out are QWOC. But keep playing the victim here instead of actually listening to POC for once! “We are all guilty of that.” Nah, that’s just you, only caring about white women and white lgbtq+ women but not giving a shit about WOC (or POC in general).
This post is super funny coming from someone who is the literal embodiment of white feminism, lmao. It’s funny that you pretend to care about intersectional feminism when you have repeatedly, without fail, spoken over POC in the 100 fandom and silenced our voices and acted like you have any right to decide what is or isn’t racist, when you have constantly defended the 100′s racism and ridiculed all the POC (and the few white people who aren’t racist af who have also called you out) who have dared to be vocal about this show’s disgusting racism (but, according to you, The 100 is just So Progressive and not racist at all, and the vast amount of POC who have been offended are just overreacting, am I right), when you have deemed that POC calling out racism is just “bullying and harassment”, when you have said gross things about Bob Morley having “white male privilege” and then issued a half assed non-apology (in which you literally said MOC always have it better in fandom than white women, instead of listening to WOC who know that that’s not the case), when you cared about Clarke and Lexa and Octavia (and defended Clarke from the - nonexistent - hate she gets) but didn’t give a shit about WOC on the show (or the racialized misogyny they get in fandom), I mean I could go on! Some receipts of you being shitty, in case you wanted them, are right here, though I’m sure I can find many more.
So yeah, the next time you want to preach about intersectional feminism, maybe you first want to look at how you are racist white feminist garbage, but I mean, that’s just my opinion~
also, about disabled women, does anybody else remember when she and all her friends made fun of me for being too young and being a “proud slytherin” and a million other things (one of her friends literally said she hoped i’d get a lobotomy)? remember when i told her to stop being so condescending to me (an autistic woman) and a woman with ptsd and she said “i speak down to people who i feel behave below me or have an intelligence level below mine” and when i called her ableist she said:
real intersectional of you, laynemorgan. your hypocrisy and self-victimization has reached a new high
for anybody who doesn’t know who layne is: she’s a super-stan for one of the most racists tv shows on air, the 100, and she kissed so much ass she became a PA. the100writers kimshum got anything to add?
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