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Seeing Mean Green in My Feminism Past
My niece has just discovered/read that her feminism is 'privileged'. Well, didn't that just plunge me into some very old confusion, anger and grieving. I was very active in the Women's Movement in the 70's (family day care, family property law, equal or a least better employment opportunities, support for single mothers - seems all so assumed now). We had great organizations and the ear of government, locally and provincially/nationally. Heady times. A day came though that thoroughly flummoxed me, and many of my cohorts. Overnight, our leadership women were discredited if they weren't 'women of colour'. I feel like I watched our organizations crumble overnight. Suddenly, no one could speak for anyone else; the further divisions/special perspectives were infinite. Our ability to talk to government/media vanished. We could only talk ad infinitum amongst/about ourselves, with no sign of a real capacity for social action.
I could see no way forward, and turned my attention to career and family. For years, I couldn't grasp what had happened. Only now am I seeing that that was the mean green meme in action very close to and in me. Hmmm ... And now, here's my niece perhaps caught in something smelling as foul.
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Posted October 24th, 2008 by SebastianHi Anita
On the one side, I can understand your problem, and your right that these situations are not acceptable, because what good is a feminist movement that cant act properly. But on the otherside, the black women of that time , standing on green, critizied your orangeness(and amberness), didnt they? (Now a little standard green: )Theoretically they were right, and are so today. To not include is to exclude, to speak about women concerned only with the allday structures of white middle class women is racist, point.
I dont know what your position on this is, but in your posting you remain quite neutral about this.
I think you must transcend both positions.
Love
Sebastian








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