#Whitefeminism

[smallamounts87]

TW: Sexual Assault. Misogynoir of united nations staff member, & usidhr trainee arielle london

Does not claim any Black ancestry:

[monriatitans]

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 1 OF 3 Wednesday, March 1, 2023

"When feminist rhetoric is rooted in biases like racism, ableism, transmisogyny, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia, it automatically works against marginalized women and against any concept of solidarity. It's not enough to know that other women with different experiences exist; you must also understand that they have their own feminism formed by that experience. Whether it's an argument that women who wear the hijab must be 'saved' from it, or reproductive-justice arguments that paint having a disabled baby as the worst possible outcome, the reality is that feminism can be marginalizing. If a liberation movement's own representatives are engaging with each other oppressively, then what progress can the movement make without fixing that internal problem?" - Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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[lebensmudewing]

Can someone explain me why is a bad thing to be scared of muslim countries growing population without saying "racism" or "islamophobia"?

All religions are misogynistic and we have all seen what happened in Afghanistan, what's the thing that will stop such religious radicalization to happen in the west if muslims are the ones who are having the most kids?

Yeah, maybe most Afghans don't believe that women are subhuman, but women and girls are suffering because of that. So, what will stop radical misogynists to reach power positions and move the overton window towards misogyny?

Edit: I'm brown, so don't come with your "whitefeminism" shit

[atla-confessions]

Ty Luko is just fanon Zutara and i mean that as a compliment to Ty Luko.Zutara shippers are just pick mes who don't wanna engage with Ty Lee because she's a girlypop and think Zuko wants 'a girl who's not like other girls' i.e whitefeminizing Katara when she's a native punk girl

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[foxgirltail]

People more knowledgeable and eloquent than I have talked about issues with Hamilton, but I think a peak moment of the #whitefeminism #girlbossery that is so often discussed is when Angelica sings about Thomas Jefferson and his "all men are created equal" line and how she wants to get women included in whatever followup there is, while her whole family owned slaves

[shivology]

"gerri would be good on this" clear the searches shiv feminist shiv women's rights advocate shiv -whitefeminism !!!!

[faxmillekitty]

Duhai puan mengapa kau hanya terdiam saat saudaramu meringis kesakitan, bukankah kau berjanji kita akan berjuang untuk semua wanita?

Apakah hanya sang jelita yang dibantu saat menderita

Apakah hanya si pirang yang akan ditolong saat ia mengerang

Mengapa saat ia berkulit gelap semuanya senyap?

Mengapa dunia telinganya tertutup, saat seorang wanita meminta tolong dengan pakaian tertutup?

Jika ia bermata biru, mereka akan menganggap mu seru, jika kau bermata hitam,mereka anggap kau dianggap semuanya runyam.

#feminisme #whitefeminism

[bdsmrist]

tiktok dropping a ~hot take~ : interesting how the barbie movie doesnt pass the bechtel test… #whitefeminism

[monriatitans]

BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 15 OF 15 Tuesday, February 28, 2023

"It's easy to blame the patriarchy, to rightfully point at the men who rape and hold them accountable. What's harder is to notice the women who sometimes passively direct rapists toward their victims by contributing to the hypersexualization of women of color under the guise of empowerment ... Feminist white women who think 'sexy Pocahontas' is an empowering look instead of lingering fetishization of the rape of a child. The same imagery they claim to find sexually empowering is rooted in the myth of white women's purity and every other woman's sexual availability." - Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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[ryukisgod]

Male leftists (like other political extremists) like to put women they don’t know on a pedestal. They’ll be like “women I don’t know agree with me, I just know it.”

Male leftists hate “white women” the same way that right wing men hate “western women,” aka they both hate the women they know, and see exotic women as a pure monolith uncorrupted by problematic opinions about how women should have autonomy.

Here’s a link to TikTok I made about this a while ago (unfortunately you can’t reblog with a video): https://www.tiktok.com/@ryukisgod0/video/7086441802793815297?_t=8n81j5y61UP&_r=1

can I be controversial and say that the way ppl treat white women needs to be seriously criticized. Like you, person reading this, need to be aware of how you’re talking about white women, bc a lot of the time yall arent criticizing racism, but rather just being sexist blatantly. Can you imagine mocking a native man, calling him hysterical and privileged, for being open about racism? No? Can you imagine people who call themselves progressive, openly saying that native men are inherently “a different kind of evil” than a white male? Also no? Does the idea of someone saying that make you angry and uncomfortable? Probably, at least I’m hoping it does. So given that, why would you feel different about people doing that exact shit w white women.

There’s so much cognitive dissonance within leftist spaces when it comes to women and female oppression, willful ignorance around female experiences, silencing of female voices. It makes me uncomfortable, partially as a woman, but also partially as a creole woman who now knows that you guys would 100% act this way about racism too if it was socially acceptable.

[peridotlionheart]

Now I have trepidations about seeing Barbie.

[neige-africaine]

[weirdnaturalscience]

Finished the book. Have another fun quote from page 429: "So we evolved to be sexist."

We literally did not. We evolved to form social groups and to generally want to feel like part of a group and perhaps even to create culture and enjoy following its rules. But there is no evolutionary mandate on what that culture is. Do people forget that non patriarchal cultures exist? Like, many of them! To this day! The Minangkabau is one very literate matriarchal/egalitarian ethnic group with exceptionally low sexual violence for instance and i really enjoyed learning about them recently. That's just ONE though and there are so many more.

Also this book does that #whitefeminism thing where like moooost descriptions of rape in the book suggest that it's a crime committed by bad backwards men in predominantly non-white parts of the world. Which it fucking isnt. And similarly she basically only mentions rape in war settings. Again, without explicitly stating this, she implies that sexual violence isn't widespread in peace time in the so-called first world. Except it is! So thanks for perpetuating myths about rape I guess.

Seriously though how could you go from "we share just as much DNA with male dominated chimps as with female dominated bonobos" (paraphrasing) and conclude we evolved to be sexist against women.

???

Lately I've been really interested in primates, hominid evolution and the adaptions of the cis female body. I've enjoyed a lot of books on these subjects (for example, Vagina Obscura by Rachel Gross) and so I was excited to read Eve by Cat Bohanon. Unfortunately, this book has been a disappointment in multiple ways.

While I've learned some very cool things from the book, for example about about breasts (they intake saliva during nursing and tailor breastmilk according to the substances found in the saliva) or gluteofemoral fat (women are the only primates with so much gluteofemoral fat, a unique type of fat crucial to infant brain development) there are a lot of problems with the book.

Some are minor - I just don't like the religious metaphors, but then I should have known, given the title of the book. Some are major problems: she actually says at one point that women evolved to be sexist: "I propose that women are sexist because we essentially evolved to be" (hardback page 400). What the fuck? There's no evidence for this. I also find it ironic that we are essentially blaming women for a system that benefits men. Yeah, no. This is ridiculous.

There's more! Sections on women who have made it into the US military read like enlistment propaganda. So fun. Yes, what these women did physically is impressive. Still not a fan of the US military!

She discusses how promiscuous our close primate relatives are, including the females. This is 100% true. She goes on to note the advantages of monogamy for *males.* This is also true and backed up by other primate books I've read, for example the Woman Who Never Evolved by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. She then makes a totally unwarranted leap that likens women choosing monogamy and having sex with one man to prostitutes. What the fuck, honestly. I thought we'd established that female chimps and bonobos will fuck anything that MOVES, and they're having a great time, so good for them. So why are we bringing back these tired and inaccurate sex stereotypes that women are "giving in" to having sex with men in exchange for monogamy, again, AFTER we've just established the ways in which monogamy is actually something MALE hominids might have preferred over females? Make it make sense

She doesn't argue so so so hard for the prostitution hypothesis, she just sort of presents it and doesn't tear it to shreds as she should. She mentions the "meat for sex" hypothesis, which has been debunked. She doesn't mention that it's been debunked. Remember, female primates don't need to be cajoled and wheedled into sex.

She also spends far too much time flirting with these ideas of the "male brain" and "female brain" when there is no neuroscience to back either up. She does sort of conclude that our brains aren't sexually dimorphic and that stereotype threat exists and is an important area of study, which is true. But the path she took there was so circuitous. I'm sorry but if you're going to consider the question "are human women stupid and inferior???????" you need to do a better job of showing that the answer is unequivocally NO, human women are of equal intelligence to men and there's a huge amount of scientific evidence to show this. The end. Present that upfront, then get into the data, don't take your sweet time about it. Jesus!

Ugh!

No but the prostitution monogamy thing was so bad. Again, female bonobos and chimps fuck anything that moves. Female bonobos engage in female genital rubbing (female on female) on average every TWO HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TWO HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry to shatter the illusions of any of yall you thought you had sexual stamina.

But our hominid ancestors tried to "convince" males to be monogamous by "bartering" sex that they otherwise wouldn't have wanted to have? That doesn't sound like the female primates I know who are literally Olympic athletes of sex. Kill this myth that females are less sexual. That is purely human culture talking.

Disappointed. I'll finish reading the book because I am learning interesting things here and there, but.......yeah.

[csulbwgss11]

Why We Need To Talk About White Feminism

This video focuses on some of the problems created by  white feminism. White feminism can be very problematic to the feminist  movement because it often dismisses and excludes women of color. This quick video covers a few reasons how white feminism is actually harming women of color and only focusing on the experiences of white women.

[ultralaser]

"The Australian actress disagrees with the idea that a performer only really knows a character if they have shared experiences." THAT'S NOT REALLY THE ISSUE HERE, CATE. .... [ Cate Blanchett defends straight actors playing LGBT roles - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45926322 ] #cateblanchett #hollywood #labor #whitefeminism https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLQgItHWZ6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k2j6ydz1spht

[papirouge]

if I ever see yet another corny post of a whitefem arguing that the Karen meme is aKtchulLy more hurtful to them bc scrotes weaponize it against them online than racist White women terrorizing Black people at their workplace are I'm going to explode

Whitefem will literally see White males harming women IRL and then blame Black meme culture for that

Psychotic.