![]() They don’t want to picture women as people whom others might actually have to negotiate with. People don’t want to hear about how women think and feel. If you have failed to consider this rather obvious point, assuming instead that since we’re all “basically in support of equality” it would therefore be fine for you to broadcast your important and valuable thoughts with impunity, then you still don’t get what “being oppressed as a class” actually means. This is because such things would only happen if the class-based discrimination you are describing didn’t actually exist. ![]() If you expected any of these things to happen, then really you shouldn’t have spoken out in the first place. “Here are some things which will not happen if you speak out on behalf of women as a class: you will not get loads of people listening to your carefully worded, nuanced thoughts and saying “hmm, interesting, let me think about this some more” you will not get people who disagree with you saying “sure, I think that’s one angle, but perhaps we could discuss it a little more?” you will not get hordes of women eager to express their support and gratitude in public you will not find people making connections between the problems you’ve highlighted and the surface-level examples of sexism they’ve noticed elsewhere. ![]() ![]() Glosswitch wrote a piece in January called ‘ Choosing between misogyny and feminism: A practical guide, where she says
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