I may quote you one day "If I only care about the suffering of women but ignore the greater barriers to equality for a black woman... I am, in effect, participating in the subjugation of the black woman."
I tried to touch on that the other day when I went on a rant in Meta. I admit I was angry, even more so because I live somewhere where the women don't have much privilege and it infuriates me to come to DU and see how so much energy is sucked into rigid, shallow and intolerant drama.
The activist world has moved past
words like *b* and *c* recognizing that the casual use of those words by a few brain-dead people is NOTHING next to the economic exploitation of the current *b* and *c*'s of this world who are expected to subsidize the great American fantasy that you can polish your nails all day sipping coffee sweetened with the tears of some Central American woman whose land was stolen, husband massacred and kids raped so your sugar companies can sell you cheap sugar to sweeten your bitter coffee (from beans from another woman's tears) as you sit there complaining that some disembodied ass on the internet used the word *b*.
OMG. Get me my smelling salts! Vapors. Pearls! Clutch my chest! Ponies! Ponies! Alert!
Here's my take, the word police only works to divide. As long as they can keep people focused, better yet divided, on stupid words, the longer the exploiters can continue the international, economic and really debilitating rape of our *sisters* around the world.
"Beulah hand me a grape".
http://www.democraticunderground.com/124096792#post58Gormy Cuss explained the wave terminology this way "The wave terminology is shorthand for different eras with different focuses" and RainDog wrote a brilliant post about the details in
the same thread.
Here's an excerpt of what Raindog wrote but I encourage everyone to read it.
1st wave feminism: voting rights, property rights, birth control (that existed at the time - condoms or sponges and, just as important, education about sexuality and how to prevent conception.)
2nd wave feminism: sexual freedom, legislative work to change sexist law, integration into the workplace, equal funding, integration into the political arena
3rd wave feminism: sexual freedom, inclusion of gendered females, diversity, inclusion of women of color and women from other cultures - plus the issues surrounding both 1st and 2nd wave feminism.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/124096792#post231 I love what you wrote. No woman is free until all women are free.
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