History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: Navigating a 'Crooked Room': Reflections From Black Women on Their Experiences in Progressive Spaces [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)None of us is angry at her for making a mistake. I think most got upset when we said something about her words and got accused of tearing her down and being mean and jealous and ungrateful. It was more of how her supporters responded by treating us like ingrates instead of listening.
If you see, Patricia tweeted out facts about how much black women make and seemd apologetic to me. Nice person. We think she is cool. But if you read most of the articles written by black feminists, you'd see that we ctually didn't do a teardown. It provided an opportunity to get a conversation going.
I would never talk about this at work, I always get scared that I'll find out that somebody I really like is a virulent conservative. I've met lots of black conservatives. They don't believe in the wage gap at all between men and women. Will admit to a wage gap for minorities. But they blame that on feminism and liberals.
I hope we can all get together as liberals and start working on poor conservative women. I see them as hostages.