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In reply to the discussion: Cui Bono if Joy Ann Reid is taken down? [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Because the "left" was run by white straight able bodied men, who put their issues first, and anyone else had to take a back seat. As one woman who lived through it said, "Women were expected to serve coffee to the men while they determined the future of the movement, as well as strategy, then were expected to participate in "free love" when the meetings were over. A woman's "true freedom" seemed to be equated with how much she served the needs of the men- if she, for instance, became an adult when she disobeyed her mother and slept with her boyfriend.
You can see where that would lead nowhere for women. Reproductive rights certainly aren't "the worse" for the women's movement, nor is decent childcare, nor workplace harassment, nor being able to have a line of credit separate from a husband.
I'm disappointed you think that any of those groups who made the decision that white men weren't going to be the ones to help their cause, are "the worse for it."
This return to dismissing issues that don't specifically affect white straight able bodied men as "identity politics" and the only issues that are "universal" are the ones that affect white straight able bodied men directly is the really divisive dynamic.
Not to lecture you per se,....