2nd and 3rd wave feminism

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. i think the problem is that when people say "the whole" they very rarely mean it

for instance when we say "xyz is harmful to women", sometimes its true for All women (rape/murder) and sometimes its true for your immediate category of women and not all women. when you suggest a cure to this, again sometime you may actually be talking about all women (rape laws) but sometimes you are talking about what would be helpful for women exactly like yourself.

i think we very rarely keep this in mind.

sex work is something i feel often falls into this category, but there are great essays written by black women and their particular problems with domestic violence & dv laws that started my thinking about intersectionality and that no analysis is complete without considerations like race/ethnicity/sec/sexual orientation/country etc.

its also important to keep in mind that if you are white and middle class in this country and a women, you have only one oppression to worry about. therefore you can feel like all women should bond together. however, the more oppressions i have, my in groups maybe different. my allegiance to the lgbt community will always outweigh my allegiance to straight women. my allegiance to the south asian immigrant lgbt community will outweigh my allegiance to the larger lgbt community. these are all things we should keep in mind, when talking about movements/issues/politics/whatever