~°holy water°~

I did speech and debate in college. Incredibly sexist activity, in a lot of ways, especially back then. (ex., I got scored lower a lot for the heinous crime of wearing pants, both before and after I came out as trans). Male judges notoriously wrote a lot of really annoying, sexist things about women, especially multiply marginalized women. We'd sit in the team van on the ride home and read all the shittiest comments we got from judges together.

But you know what? I think every single woman of color in speech that I talked to about this said they would just about always rather have a white man as a judge than a white woman, especially an older white woman.

Because the shit white women wrote when scoring them was both more sexist and more racist the vast majority of the time.

The vast majority of women's violence is enacted on other women.

And especially on women who are further down the social hierarchy. Women of color, poor and working class women, queer women, neurodivergent women. Plus all trans people - trying to violently force trans femmes out of femininity and trans mascs back into it.