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In saner days, I really liked the idea of Intersectionality — which I understood as "every person is an unfathomably multifaceted system" > "the complexity of that system is unreal" > "you can't confidently assume very much about a person based on a handful of surface features"
If you want to be a functional human, you can't try to hold every important emergent property of every person in your life probabilistically... but I thought it was a useful reminder to have some humility when trying to understand other people; we all have *a lot* going on
The principle has been almost entirely flipped — a handful of (admittedly very socially salient) surface features are assumed to have simple enough multiplicative effects on one another that a person's difficulties in life can be more or less checklisted
It's honestly just making me a bit sad this morning. I really think this social humility is a bit of the salve we need to heal whatever it is that's going on with us politically — and leeching into relationships that *should be* hardier than this
I understood it, initially, as "the effects of being in minority groups A and B is nonlinear in both." Which, I like because linearity is rare in the real world, so it seems reasonable.
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