It seems in various places around the internet , people are up in arms ARMS I say because the see Palin as a " pander" OMG WTF BBQ a lzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I'm sorry did I fall asleep ?
Cause frankly
I feel we got what we deserved.
( i know go on to agree with Sudy with lots more words)
Essentially we have reduced the experience of MULTIPLE VARIED women to tokens, hearsay and hegemonic kyriarchy
This for me has many amusing ( by amusing I mean gallows style) moments of just stupid some I have been involved in around this election , and essentially around the way " feminists" have decided they wanted to conduct their relationships with women .
Palin is what you get when no one believes you want anything more than to be indulged and fettered , rather than engaged and responsible. Palin is what you get when teh way you wield and identify power is observed and handed back to you. Poorly executed ( as Sylvia so adroitly and in a fashion that had me spitting grapefruit juice out my nose points out) but in essence a nice and succinct way for the way essentially we have treated women who are not able to boost the cachet/profile blah blah.
But the hew and the cry of " We're NOT THAT GULLIBLE" and how could tehy think we're so dumb?!?! THEY DON'T RESPECT US
Um ,
We don't respect us. We don't respect the multiple varied views we have , and when Hillary was running we were OK with that because a symbol for us was about to be in POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We don't respect us because when I went to talk about womens UNITY I had to listen to the head of the organization that RAN the thing , say to my face that sexism was more okay than racism, and call my ideas ( read 24 years life experience of being black and having boobs ) interesting, and demonstrate no follow up after well it looked like I wasn't gonna affect her work anymore.
We don't respect EACH OTHERS OWN LIVES because to this day we still avoid and obfuscate having really , public, egalitarian discussions on how poverty, race, and POWER are effecting people's ability to survive. And now with a CATEGORY 4/5 hurricane coming down the pike. THERE STILL ISN'T A GOOD PLAN ON THE GROUND AND PEOPLE ARE BEING LEFT TO DIE CAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ID EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T HAVE HOMES ( just the whole damn front page )
When the campaign started and it became crystal clear "women" were going to react harder to shots taken at Hillary's face that Michelle Obama and her children's physical safety . And yes taking time to wait till Hillary is OUT of the race to care is reacting harder. Taking a week to comment on a cover on a liberal website while jumping about " periodically" is reacting harder or recently deciding that Women Count , also involves Michelle Obama.
We don't respect women enough to truly and progressively engage in a transparent non hegemonic communal life sustaining MOVEMENT that honors every woman's personal lived experiences.
I am offended by the Sara Palin pick and offended by the kerfluffle after.
Because NOT ONE , not a single one of these HOW DARE THEY WE ARE NOT THAT STUPID posts has included
A MOMENT
of introspection.
Sara palin is what happens when we SAY becomes radically and entusiastically different from what we do.Sarah Palin is what happens when we use the rhetoric of change and unity , to ADVERTISE our selves rather than change our worlds. Sara Palin is what happens when we make sure to ignore the ramifications of trying to constantly rewrite history and sweep shit under the rug.
How is it that we think knowing ONE WOMAN of color ( vaguely , often incorrectly and with HORRIBLE understanding) and only using it to show and often put other WOC in their places
We have no questions for how things got to this point where man WOC refuse to even respect the idea of feminism. How many queer allies are completely fed up.
And itis not because we don't actually think of them , it is because we do not want the answers.
The exchange between Melissa Lacewell Harris and Gloria Steinem on Democracy NOW typified for me the way this has gone on in the campaign.Gloria Steinem as a white privileged woman feels free to flip and consumptive with the experiences of WOC and Shirley Chisholm specifically to use these LIVES as a THOUGHT experiment.
That literally a womans life is a thought experiment?
What disturbed me most , is that frankly Gloria Steinem didn't feel she had to be prepared, she didn't feel at all necessary to have specifics about anything she said, about being clear about what she's addressing in her editorial, and flaunting how she was MADE to address this because she has a choice. This is optional for her. And how do you respond to a woman pouring out the truth? And I still need my dig at Obama will win
People who read it ( read white readers of the NY Times) liked it. And can you teach me more.
She wants more conversations but lists no ways to have them
And aren't we WOC supposed to fall in line.
When women who are feeling unserved undefended and un represented are supposed to be SORRY and expect to be undefended because we didn't speak out enough?
This does not make me happy . It does not cause me flights of joy and bliss to know that women of color are undefended and isolated by both larger power structures and supposed social justice movements.
But it's real. It is real that literally they are few to none ACTUAL concerned efforts about dialogs on conscious raising among women not on privileged white, hetero, cisgendered terms. It is real that people who say the love women spend their times easing powers concerns by screaming what they aren't. at the DIRECT expense of those who are. That any critique of these things is " women bashing" or jealousy or misplaced. That we are not
serving the proper purpose against the real enemy
not serving the proper purpose
not SERVING
Because in many WOMEN'S eyes certain women are the HELP , and the though experiment, there to be used discussed, made to wait their turn and trotted out for convenient photo opportunities, how actually s hocked are we that the RNC feels the same?
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