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Topic subjectNot at all. Your argument is to bring up women when I didn't.
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13405130, Not at all. Your argument is to bring up women when I didn't.
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Fri Sep-25-20 07:22 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


Account for incarceration, and you can switch the average of the last two.



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




That's simply false. Unequivocally so.



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



Black men, brother.



>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


Dude. My question assumed you simply listened to Black men talking about their experience. There are spaces where this happens. Assume you're there, listening. No women are present. Why does the experience of Black men "stand in opposisiton" to Black women in your mind? This is wild.