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Topic subjectso your only argument is "it happens to men too"
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13405124, so your only argument is "it happens to men too"
Posted by atruhead, Fri Sep-25-20 07:12 PM

>Intersectionality correctly applied means that you'd
>acknowledge that Black men deal with gendered racism as well.
>This is simply ignored due to the fact that we've come to
>think of "gender" as meaning female. Black+female experiences
>a unique targeting by white supremacist patriarchy, yet what
>we fail to acknowledge is that Black+male does too.

men still have an advantage in power. put four people in a room all making the same salary, black and white. the general power structure will go: white man, white woman, black man, black woman

black men are fighting for equality on one ground, black women are fighting from a number of perspectives



>>also when women are
>>speaking out, "what about men?" is poor timing and the
>>intraracial equivalent of All Lives Matter"
>
>
>This is really interesting, because I said nothing about
>women. I just asked what if you listened to Black men speaking
>about their experience.

I feel like "I said nothing about women" is insulting my intelligence, because who is the root of this post about?

This idea that Black men are
>invalidating Black women simply by sharing their experience is
>just plain dangerous at this point. Did realize you created
>that scenario?

sorry you're hung up on semantics and words. instead of "invalidating", does "standing in opposition" work?

again, "Im simply sharing my experience" when women speak up sounds a lot like All Lives Matter

women have things to be upset about, yes men do as well. but "what about us?" isnt helping make any sort of progress