a personal dump mostly

Women should not be afraid to criticize religious misogyny. When religions have strict requirements for women that they do not have for men, especially when these rules expressly relate to the control and ownership of women's sexuality, and when religious communities enforce these rules such that women who do not comply with them are ostracized from communities that often isolate all their members from knowledge of how to live in the outside world anyway, that's a bad thing. Flat out. If someone is pretending that the Amish or white evangelicals don't have their own heinous varieties of religious misogyny, clearly they are being racist in this notion that brown people do misogyny worse than everyone else. But to call a misogynist practice a misogynist practice is not racist and in fact is good for women. This should be pretty clear and part of the problem HAS been white women routinely using criticism of religious misogyny as an excuse to be racist. The takeaway from that is not that basic feminist criticism is racist, but that...racism is bad even when feminists do it.

yes offense but someone who isnt well versed in social justice discourse and has somewhat ignorant views of that stuff but who still genuinely cares about other people and actually does something to help them even if they dont necessarily “understand” them will litchrally always be superior to someone who thinks of other peoples suffering as an intellectual exercise and is only interested in developing their knowledge of theory and having all the Correct Opinions to look smart online or in their undergrad philosophy class lol

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