Comment by [deleted] on 28/03/2024 at 12:36 UTC

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View submission: capitalism's demolition will not dismantle misogyny.

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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.”

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination

It also takes class as its central point, before breaking down other identities and seeing how they interact. That was always its purpose.

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Comment by LadywithaFace82 at 28/03/2024 at 12:39 UTC

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And no, you aren't explicitly saying wealthy women can buy their way out or that they have nothing to complain about. But overemphasizing class as a cause for **gender** inequality is being grossly oversimplistic and implies such things.