Not trying to call out anyone or anything but just curious as to other people’s thoughts about Sad Girl Theory (the theory, not any one in particular).
I have been reading about it and kinda following up on it for a while but I have never really seen the “movement” (?) address any issues relating to people of color (or even specifically women of color/women who are not white, skinny and conventionally attractive according to Eurocentric beauty standards) and I feel like a feminist movement that doesn’t acknowledge women of color basically already exists (white feminism/traditional feminism and no one needs that…) and as someone who doesn’t feel like they fit into the traditions Eurocentric standards of beauty/conventionally attractive, I have never been able to feel a personal connection to the Sad Girl movement. It feels very distancing and exclusive and almost alienating. (And this is coming from the saddest girl you’ll ever meet)
Given how troubling the history of the feminist movement has been via women of color being completely and actively excluded, I feel that for a movement to be truly effective and legitimate, it must a include and acknowledge women of color, let them have the well deserved voice they have been denied for hundreds of years. While I do appreciate the movement’s dedication to being open about feelings, it’s anti capitalist sentiments and its ruthless fight for reproductive freedom, A feminism that fails to represent and include women of color is not a movement I can get behind
(DISCLAIMER: it is entirely possible that the movement is very inclusive and awesome and I just haven’t heard about it (though that seems unlikely as I’ve followed it for a while) but if that is the case and I’m just a careless researcher I APOLOGIZE SINCERELY)
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