Do white women birth and raise white sons? Have white women benefitted from the very patriarchy we live in and white supremacy? Yes and yes. Look at how women In western and Northern Europe live compared to women in Africa and the Middle East. Or look at how Native American women and First Nation women in Canada have to deal with. Or black American women in America as well. There are so many systems set up by white men, that oppress All women, but disproportionately affect women of colour much much worse. And we can’t just blame the white men.. so we don’t bare any responsibility from benefiting from white supremacy? Is that it?
All you have to do is ask any woman of colour how white women currently are using the “white men are bad” excuse to get off of the hook for the very same patriarchy that has victimised and exploited women of colour.
If you really can’t see how problematic it is blaming white men as bad while at the same time raising and birthing them and expecting to get off of the hook for the part you play, then you need to go speak to women of colour.
And it’s the typical response of white women who when called out on this to say it’s victim blaming. I’ve had many women of colour bring this topic to my attention and I thought since we were going to have discussions I would be one to bring up.
For example. Trans women who are white telling women of colour they are more oppressed and that women of colour are wrong for focusing on their issues which are women’s issues, and if if trans women are not centered in their feminism then they are wrong. Or calling them “white feminists”. Which we all know means to have a self centered, navel hazy, whites only focus on women’s issues. This idea of inclusiveness is pushing women of colour to the side for white trans women to benefit. Meanwhile the sisterhood of feminism is totally abandoning women of colour for white trans women to feel good about themselves.
And I say white trans women are leading the movement because if you follow the money trail, it is white trans women funding the movements in the US, which seems to direct the movement globally.
So feminists supporting this trans movement are basically supporting white supremacy. That whole “trans women of colour”’thing is a smoke screen. How? When biological
Women of colour barely have their concerns heard in feminism as it is. Black women are constantly binned in with trans women for inclusion? Hello.. black women are women. Not men. That plays into the stereotypes
Of black women that hurts them.
Pray tell me, how a white Western European man (no matter how he identifies) is more oppressed than a black American woman? If a white Swedish trans woman had the audacity to say this to me I think I would vomit.
So this is what I mean. Who has given white men this level of entitlement from birth? You think they just raised themselves? They just decided at the age of five to be entitled on their own? Our whole society, which we participate in enforces their entitlement. So yes white women are half of the blame.
White men are bad, white men are entitled, white men oppress. That’s throwing rocks and hiding your hand. I mean black women and other women of colour keep saying this. Are we listening at all?
No because as soon as they say it we get offended and say it’s victim blaming. Yet want them to support feminism but won’t even know examine our own role in white supremacy and supporting the very patriarchy we claim to want to do away with.
Your response was a perfect example of white feminism btw. Nothing about my statement is anti woman. You or anyone is free to refuse to examine why you as a white woman don’t see how you helped create the very monster you rail against. Aka white men.
I suggest you have a discussion with a black British woman or black American woman or other woman of colour for greater insight as they can give you better input. And perhaps some advice as to how we can do better.
Feminism for biological women is barely inclusive, yet here we are having trans women pushing women aside.
And who is getting the short end of the stick? Way more than any white woman. Women of colour.. we are all getting a bad deal. But the added little insidious, evil of white supremacy in the pro trans movement is definitely affecting women of colour way more than us.
So I want to again ask.. how is a white trans woman from Western Europe or Scandinavia for example more oppressed, or have it worse than a biological woman of colour?
There is no way any white man in Sweden or anyone in Scandinavia in general more oppressed than any person of colour. I can say this with confidence no matter their sexuality or how they identify.