It is lovely. When she said she wanted friendship, not sisterhood; conversation, not solidarity, it clarified some things for me.https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/927276080377094150 …
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We are individuals who have connected as individuals, rather than members of the same group who have duties of solidarity to each other.
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I've always liked the idea of sisterhood & solidarity. I have a bent for movements & idealism. But if they quash individuality & variability
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that is no good. They become, not a source of friendship & support, but a duty & a restriction & source of conflict. And they always seem to
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I have said before, I need a tribe of anti-tribalists to feel at home with! I know what I mean by this! Maybe some of you do too.
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A unified sisterhood is an old fantasm with no real basis in reality. There is no such thing as a brotherhood shared between all men.
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There are brotherhoods and sisterhoods based on what you said, common interests or struggles. Basing it on gender is blind to human nature.
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We actually can see the failure of this 'sisterhood' in the dissension brought by intersectionnality.
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