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"A subset of women"

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JellySlice · 11/04/2019 07:29

The statement "black women are a subset of women" appears to cause offence, but I don't understand why. Surely black women are a subset of women in the same way as Jewish women, Polish women, refugee women and diabetic women are subsets of women? Isn't that what intersectional feminism is about?

Is this statement offensive on its own, or only when hijacked by the AWA TRAs?

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Saltovinegar · 11/04/2019 07:32

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SuperLoudPoppingAction · 11/04/2019 07:31

The problem for me is when males are presented as a subset of women and then a false equivalence is drawn with actual subsets of women who experience additional oppression such as black women.

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