Good piece. I get impatient with 'There's nothing wrong with the ideology! People are just doing it wrong!' whether it's communism, Sharia, intersectionality whatever.' Benign interpretations of almost anything can & do exist but the reality of what a thing is in practice mattershttps://twitter.com/CampbellSocProf/status/975076836236390401 …
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I wrote about how intersectionality could be valuable if it were part of a liberalism which also valued shared humanity & individuality & didn't box people into acceptable views for their identity like some kind of feudal or cast system.https://areomagazine.com/2017/02/15/the-problem-with-intersectional-feminism/ …
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But, in practice, it does. I also recognise the drive to 'reclaim' good concepts from bad actors rather than abandon them to them. It's why I hung on to the label of 'feminist' for so long and still respect truly liberal feminists who do this.
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That said I assume your position is that feminism, as originally intended, is a well meaning idea about rights & equality that indeed makes a lot of sense, while intersectionality’s post-modern origins & overall concepts are unscientific, segregational & suspect. Yes?
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No, but it has everything to do with whether everyone who believes in gender equality is a feminist which was the point.
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