Tuesday, February 19, 2008

A failure of the feminism rallying cry

Please read my friend's post on how the various "it's a woman's turn" positions put forth by Gloria Steinem, the Women's Media Center, and others, have a ways to go in fitting non-white women into their scheme. Here's an excerpt:

Nobody talks about Hillary's power the same way nobody talks about white women's power whenever they feminist-monger us to death. This is an old (blood) sport and I find that engaging in it in this election is distracting from the point, for me at least, and very toxic. On an emotional level, the persistent inability to grant me the autonomy to say that I am not doing a "pick race over gender" thing when it comes to this election is profoundly dehumanizing.

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