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View submission: capitalism's demolition will not dismantle misogyny.
I think you have an extremely underdeveloped idea of the patriarchy if you think wealth can buy a woman's way out of it. Yes, the poor suffer more because they are poor. But economics didn't invent misogyny and its not't going to cure it, either.
Intersectionality is essential to understanding how the patriarchy affects *individuals* from various demographics. But it's not meant to, nor was it ever developed for the purpose of telling wealthy women they've got nothing to complain about
Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2024 at 12:36 UTC
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No, I said that they can escape the worst effects of it through wealth- I have not said they can escape, nor have I said that it could be removed.
Nor have I said wealthy women “have nothing to complain about”. The fact remains that poorer women are worse affected by the patriarchy- I fail to see how that isn’t a fact. Intersectionality is not about individuals, it’s about, in the words of Crenshaw “ “not really concerned with shallow questions of identity and representation but ... more interested in the deep structural and systemic questions about discrimination and inequality.”
It also takes class as its central point, before breaking down other identities and seeing how they interact. That was always its purpose.