Please. So somehow upholding white supremacy and the white colonialist violence of cisgendered binary gender is somehow "feminist." Making the category of gender essential to genitalia is somehow what, a throwback from 40 years ago. Waiting for your current research.
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I'm new to all this, not an academic, and very confused. How does "white supremacy" come into this subject? There's obviously no denying "white colonialist violence" in general, but are you saying white people *invented* "binary gender"?
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Replying to @DorsetGirl1 @dorothyk98 and
It doesn't come into thie subject. It's one more of a long list of insults thrown at people for happen to disagree with transgender ideology, i.e that gender is innate, represents the "true self", is "assigned at birth" and that "true gender" can mismatch the assigned one. 1/
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Replying to @HeidiBrave @dorothyk98 and
That's very clear, thank you for taking the trouble to explain!
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @DorsetGirl1 and
We are in wave 4ish of feminism, it means it is not a single-axis issue. It includes issues around race, sexuality, class, disability etc. And thus white supremacist heteropatriarchy is a thing and upholds and compounds it all.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @HeidiBrave and
Thank you for taking the time to reply, but while you may be in "wave 4ish" of feminism, I'm just an old-fashioned non-academic who finds all this very confusing because what I mean by feminism is simply that women should be treated equally fairly to men by society and the law.
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Replying to @DorsetGirl1 @dorothyk98 and
As, of course, should disabled, gay, trans, non-white, etc, but I can't see how tangling all those different issues into one helps anyone to maintain focus and achieve significant legal changes on any "axis".
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Replying to @DorsetGirl1 @dorothyk98 and
From my experience in Switzerland, tangling all those different issues doesn't help maintaining focus on women's rights. For instance, if you say you are against female genital mutilation, "new" feminists come up and say it is none of our business and a patronising stance !
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This is pretty racist and apparently doesn't want to address global feminism. Also, feminism as a political ethos is not new, so BIWOC who are feminists but not white European feminists in that tradition are not "new."
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @HeidiBrave and
Does BIWOC mean "Bisexual Women of Color" or "Black, Indigenous and Women of Colour"? (Thank you, google). It's an important distinction because I'm guessing that the "indigenous" population of the UK and of Switzerland, depending of course how far back you go, is actually white.
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Replying to @DorsetGirl1 @HeidiBrave and
The latter. White people in the UK or Switzerland would not identify as indigenous.
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