• Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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    Its almost always white women who bring up patriarchy because they get to excuse themselves from the system that they’ve support and benefited from

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        3 days ago

        Then don’t call it a patriarchy. If you want true equality then recognize the system favors whiteness over sex

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          intersectional feminism is fully aware of the various factors that lead to oppression, and is aware that skin color is the biggest one of them as well.

          I don’t have a problem saying we need to get rid of white supremacy in the first place. which is everyones job, mine too. patriarchy is a system of oppression as well though that needs to die.

          I hoped that if nothing else, all the rape cases would show more clearly how much more rape and sexual oppression is going on than what people imagined, or rather, pretended