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In reply to the discussion: If you are the member of a privileged group AND call yourself progressive [View all]ChaoticTrilby
(211 posts)Very tired of men trying to explain to, or dismiss, women about the sexism that women have experienced for centuries. What? Do they think we're too stupid and air-headed to figure it out when we've experienced it first-hand? Utterly intolerable. I'm reminded of that short story about the Yellow Wallpaper, and how that lady felt being "explained"-down by the most well-meaning, bull-headed, men. Ugh.
And that goes for every sort of privilege-lording that I've ever seen from the outside. It just bothers me on a very innate level because, even though I'm not part of any racial minorities, I feel the flames of rage lick at my eyes when someone else of my "group" tries to "educate" racial minorities about discrimination. They don't need people to. They've known it all too well, all their lives. To act as if they don't strikes me as profoundly disrespectful and condescending.
As disrespectful as it is for me, an asexual, to be told by random hetero-/homo-/bi-/etc.-sexuals that I'm "just going through a phase" or "just sexually repressed."
With that off my chest, thank you very much for posting this. You've said everything I've been screaming at my computer monitor (albeit in a much less eloquent manner) for years now. Thank you.