Dismissiveness

True, true.

Thereโ€™s no denying that black womenโ€™s sexuality is policed and derided in a way that white womenโ€™s is not. By white feminists, especially.

Itโ€™s also true that white feminists are falling all over themselves to criticize Iggy Azalea, while at the same time fawning over and praising Eminem.

Hypocrite much?

However, itโ€™s always been true that oppression reproduces itself; itโ€™s an apparently-innate human tendency to increase relative status by oppressing and diminishing others rather than attempting to eliminate oppression altogether. Feminism is not immune to this.

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