aireanne (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} aireanne) wrote,@ 2008-04-14 07:05:00 |
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a letter to white women
I often read I blame the patriarchy because it makes me laugh and I agree with it. Also, a radical lesbian double masectomy feminist can bitch about the patriarchy in ways that 20-something white girls in New York and other metropolis cannot. I love how she can skewer the third wavers about double speak and the ridiculousness of their pro-sex attitudes sometimes.
But then she plugged Amanda Marcotte's book. NOOOO TWISTY!!!! If you can remember back to 2007, she was the blogger that John Edwards hired and then promptly resigned because on her blog, Pandagon, she is infamous for making the logical fallacy of ad ridiculo--okay i'm making that one up, but you know, just saying the most absurd thing possible in response to rightwing/patriarchial nutbags. (Here, in her own words).
My god. Sorry I just totally got derailed. The original point of this post was that Amanda Marcotte is one of those bad, reformist feminists who ignores POCs when they are inconvenient, is rude and disrespectful to them when they challenge her privilege, and appropriate ideas and oppressions when convenient and that I was upset that twisty's old fashioned radfem-ness has caused her to endorse Marcotte's self-aggrandizing book.
Well, i did a quick google search of "amanda marcotte POC" to see if I could find any examples of her being fucking uppity and condescending when challenged on her privilege and I discovered a whole BLOGOSPHERIC SHITSTORM about her misappriating another blogger's entire website for an article about immigration and sexism--whatevs, cause the blogger she did not cite was a woman of color.
I SWEAR TO CHRIST, FEMINIST BLOGOSPHERE, EVERY FUCKING TIME I TRY TO GET BACK INTO READING YOU, THE WHITE WOMEN ARE GETTING PISSED OFF FOR BEING CALLED ON THEIR PRIVILEGE OR ARE JUST GENERALLY FUCKING IT ALL UP FOR THE MOVEMENT.
First: white women, you have privilege. Look yourself in the mirror everyday and say, "I have privilege. I am oppressed in some ways by my gender, etc., but I also benefit EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY FROM MY WHITE PRIVILEGE." Is this not the nature of intersectionality?
Second: be fair.
Third: read some more bell hooks. Oh, you've read all her works? Okay, read it again (and don't skip out the stuff about loving black men just remember that you're not the intended audience).
Last: defer to someone who knows. For god's sake, let someone else speak for her self and her oppression and her opinions.
Now: back to writing comedy bits about forcibly aborting babies! Yay!!!
I often read I blame the patriarchy because it makes me laugh and I agree with it. Also, a radical lesbian double masectomy feminist can bitch about the patriarchy in ways that 20-something white girls in New York and other metropolis cannot. I love how she can skewer the third wavers about double speak and the ridiculousness of their pro-sex attitudes sometimes.
But then she plugged Amanda Marcotte's book. NOOOO TWISTY!!!! If you can remember back to 2007, she was the blogger that John Edwards hired and then promptly resigned because on her blog, Pandagon, she is infamous for making the logical fallacy of ad ridiculo--okay i'm making that one up, but you know, just saying the most absurd thing possible in response to rightwing/patriarchial nutbags. (Here, in her own words).
My god. Sorry I just totally got derailed. The original point of this post was that Amanda Marcotte is one of those bad, reformist feminists who ignores POCs when they are inconvenient, is rude and disrespectful to them when they challenge her privilege, and appropriate ideas and oppressions when convenient and that I was upset that twisty's old fashioned radfem-ness has caused her to endorse Marcotte's self-aggrandizing book.
Well, i did a quick google search of "amanda marcotte POC" to see if I could find any examples of her being fucking uppity and condescending when challenged on her privilege and I discovered a whole BLOGOSPHERIC SHITSTORM about her misappriating another blogger's entire website for an article about immigration and sexism--whatevs, cause the blogger she did not cite was a woman of color.
I SWEAR TO CHRIST, FEMINIST BLOGOSPHERE, EVERY FUCKING TIME I TRY TO GET BACK INTO READING YOU, THE WHITE WOMEN ARE GETTING PISSED OFF FOR BEING CALLED ON THEIR PRIVILEGE OR ARE JUST GENERALLY FUCKING IT ALL UP FOR THE MOVEMENT.
First: white women, you have privilege. Look yourself in the mirror everyday and say, "I have privilege. I am oppressed in some ways by my gender, etc., but I also benefit EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY FROM MY WHITE PRIVILEGE." Is this not the nature of intersectionality?
Second: be fair.
Third: read some more bell hooks. Oh, you've read all her works? Okay, read it again (and don't skip out the stuff about loving black men just remember that you're not the intended audience).
Last: defer to someone who knows. For god's sake, let someone else speak for her self and her oppression and her opinions.
Now: back to writing comedy bits about forcibly aborting babies! Yay!!!
