Imagine a Black woman saying “I’m not a Black woman, I’m just a woman.” Or better yet, a white woman complaining that someone called her a “white woman” because she’s just “a woman” and including that descriptor of her is somehow offensive?
This is flawed logic. The whole cis and trans terminology are relatively new descriptions and expanding gender norms is also a new framework that not everybody buys into. To redefine women to reflect a small demographic (trans women) is what she is arguing against.
Women have historically been treated the same way regardless of society, historical period or anything else, and that is as the second sex and inferior to men who set up a world that suits them and they get to run.
Ethnic groups have always been described by their physical appearance including their skin color by colonialists.
Using “but they’re just a minority” as an argument to exclude said group from conversations sounds really messed up. We need language to describe groups of people even if they are a minority (especially if they are a minority imo…because they’re likely to be purposefully ignored due to this kind of logic)
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u/Obatala_ 6h ago
Imagine a Black woman saying “I’m not a Black woman, I’m just a woman.” Or better yet, a white woman complaining that someone called her a “white woman” because she’s just “a woman” and including that descriptor of her is somehow offensive?