"White Feminist Privilege in Organizations" - an Adventure in Hilarity

[jordan179]

Courtesy of firecat at http://firecat.livejournal.com/716757.html,

this is freaking hilarious. Semi-true, but also hilariousFrom Hepshiba's Pad at

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[gothelittle]

Answers to Question 1 were clustered around the belief that TWFC helped "all women" and that a woman of color's interests were also served by the work of the organization because "they're women too." No one on the board suggested that the category of "women" was not universal, and that communities of women (or women from different communities) might have different needs, and different opinions on how to achieve those needs. There was a distinct air, in some of the comments, that women of color should be "grateful" that organizations like TWFC were fighting for "their" interests, and that the failure of women of color to join TWFC was a kind of ingratitude.
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As a woman who has watched feminist organizations up-close, I can tell you that this is not merely a racial issue. It's a Feminism issue. "You should want what we're giving you, and so you should be grateful that we're giving it to you!" they cry, as they trample all over what you actually want in order to offer you what they want you to desire.

[eric_hinkle]

As a woman who has watched feminist organizations up-close, I can tell you that this is not merely a racial issue. It's a Feminism issue. "You should want what we're giving you, and so you should be grateful that we're giving it to you!" they cry, as they trample all over what you actually want in order to offer you what they want you to desire.

This sadly reminds me of some unions I've belonged to.

[marycatelli]

How true.

[jordan179]

As a woman who has watched feminist organizations up-close, I can tell you that this is not merely a racial issue. It's a Feminism issue. "You should want what we're giving you, and so you should be grateful that we're giving it to you!" they cry, as they trample all over what you actually want in order to offer you what they want you to desire.

Yes. They are a self-proclaimed elite, and treat others as non-elites.

[polaris93]

They're trolls. Not Internet trolls (though admittedly some of them do their thing on the Internet). But trolls nevertheless. What a troll wants more than anything else in the world is attention and the rush of power that comes from truly bugging everyone around them. Now, I'm not sure how that golden advice, "Don't feed the trolls!" would work on today's feminists, but there's got to be a way of applying the principle -- maybe drowning the environment in information on everything but that sort of feminism, or inventing a bogus movement of some sort that would get lots of media attention, starving out the feminists by depriving them of their food (attention) sources. I hereby call for a forum on this matter, and on that of siderailing socialists and other nasty movements. Anybody up for it?