It absolutely does seem to be white middle class girls primarily. Their oppression is invisible since it's not acceptable to point out that females are still oppressed. Maybe it's a relief to them be able to speak about being oppressed, even if they have to attribute it to something else?
This really resonated with me too @ChattyLion and @napody.
I read this article recently - it is a moving piece about a woman born with a disability (her arm has a malformation) and then discovering in her teen years that she has a syndrome that means she can't have children.
In the piece though, she says "With everything that’s going on in the world, listing the ways the universe has wronged me felt like a petty endeavour; as a cis, white, middle-class woman, I felt like my voice was not what was needed at the moment."
She then goes on to say "People who fall under protected characteristics – race, creed, sexuality, disability – are under a greater threat than ever."
How poorly served young women are by the current dominant strain of feminism. Here is a woman with a physical disability that has caused her problems and resulted in her being treated pretty shittily at times by doctors and society - it is her sex combined with this disability that caused this treatment, not just the disability.
And yet she doesn't include her sex as being a protected characteristic, and indeed infers somehow that her "cis" womanhood is a form of privilege compared to others.
Plus she's had to come to terms with not being able to have children, and you can see how messed up her understanding of the gender critical position is: "Given my diagnosis at 15, much of the discourse around trans rights and what constitutes a “real woman” is personally painful. Excluding certain individuals because of anatomical difference feels regressive, cruel, fearful of the other. Growing up, I could not join in with my friends’ conversations about periods, birth control, the morning-after pill – something that caused me a great deal of shame, suffering and confusion. But is that all being a woman is? If trans women are not women, according to these rules, I’m not either; though if I’m not a woman, what exactly am I?"
It must have been so heart breaking to go through that, and then end up in a place of not feeling like a woman because of it. And basically suggests that her syndrome makes her a non-woman. How fucked up is that?
How has current identity politics convinced women to view themselves as privileged and not oppressed? It is the ultimate bait and switch.
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/08/how-long-covid-forced-me-to-confront-my-past-and-my-identity