Well, let’s think about it.
Is it controversial to say that white people and black people have distinct but overlapping experiences of oppression, or is that standard intersectional anti-racism?
I suppose one answer is that it’s not exactly controversial to say that, because hardly anyone does say it, so there’s no fuel for controversy. But if white people did say that? A lot, and noisily, and with menaces and insults? Yes I think we can surmise that would be controversial.
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9 responses to “Let’s play “Is it controversial?””
Oh yes, everyone loves Standard Intersectional Anti-Racism! It’s the best!!
“…but only one has to prove they’re women.”
Well yeah, because one of those groups is ‘women’ and the other is not.
I also had no idea intersectional feminism became the standard for feminism.
Fixed it for you, Void.
Dammit, messed up the strikethrough tags either side of ‘has to prove’.
Kimberle Krenshaw sure has a lot to answer for…
“But — wha— I don’t get it. Why is it controversial to say that, if we take two different kinds of women, their experiences will be similar, but different??? What’s going on? Huh? Why won’t somebody tell me what I did? You gotta be crazy, is what I’m thinking. And here’s me, just walking in the door after falling off a turnip truck.”
Since medical issuse can vary between the sexes, and it’s important to know the sex of the patient, I see no discrimination here.
Blood Knight in Sour Armor @5 I don’t think Kimberlé Crenshaw should be held responsible for that idiot. Here, for anyone interested, is her original paper: ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics’
Apologies; here’s a second attempt:
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politic