re: #482 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

The completely valid concept that different statuses intersect. A black woman has different issues than a white woman, not just the sum of woman + Black but an intersection between them. For example since white women, on average, have access to more education, capital, connections, etc. than black women, they’re more represented in academic feminism, more represented in journalistic feminism, more represented in political feminism. That’s intersectionality, and if you don’t acknowledge it, you run the risk of excluding—and demoralizing—those who have multiple minority statuses. If you take it too far, then no white feminist can say to a black feminist, “Declaring white feminists the enemy is a mistake”. Like any concept, it needs perspective.

Thank you. Struggling with the penultimate sentence, though.