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I emphasise women of color because intersectionality - in its true form - is a theory about how different axes of oppression (e.g. race and sex) intersect and feed into each other; women of color, for example, black women, are oppressed on the basis of both sex and race. Race causes her to experience oppression such as slavery, if she lived in the past; segregation, closer to the future. Sex causes her to experience oppression such as rape, objectification, and forced servitude; all three of which are still commonly experienced by black women - every woman - today.

This means that the true form of feminism is radical feminism. It recognizes social classes, analyzes them as they are in reality and not as they are in theory, and works towards the goal that it has always had: female liberation. In countries where men have more control over societies, such as Iran and South Korea, feminists cannot afford the weak and defanged feminism of liberals in the Global North. I will keep this as succinct as possible. In plain terms: Western feminism has lost focus and surrendered to the patriarchy because women still do not have class consciousness. It is useless. Spineless. Weak.

Women in the Global South cannot do campaigns for buccal fat removal, nor can they espouse bimboism and choice feminism - they are fighting for their lives and their rights to exist as a human being, in societies where male supremacy is worse than it is in the West, where patriarchy already dominates. Do you think that the South Korean women going against the societal expectations to tolerate a man, and be forced to have children, have any use for a form of "feminism" that cannot even define what a woman is?

To say that radical feminism is racist is to deny reality. I am aware that this is a favorite pastime of TRAs, but women all around the world, women of color, their feminism is radical feminism because there is no other form of feminism that has ever worked. Liberal feminism has brought nothing but AGPs and male predators into female-only spaces.

Brown and black women all around the world fight for reproductive rights, bodily autonomy, and how can they fight a fight when they cannot tell you what the cause is? It is female liberation; female liberation from sex-based oppression caused by males. It is also ridiculous to outright say that radical feminism is racist when radical feminism is one of the only few ideologies and movements that can identify classes in society. It is far more racist to insinuate that a "cisgender" black woman has more in common with a TIM because you think black women are more "masculine". A black woman is a woman - a man in a dress is a man.