Women oppress women.
Time and time again, pseudo feminists will bash men, and yell at them for what they consider to be the oppression of women. Men aren’t the only ones who seem to benefit from the gender inequality. They’re also only part of the blame for women’s oppression.
It’s an often overlooked fact, but it’s a real issue; ignorance only makes it worse. It’s seen within cultures and races and sexualities. There’s a subtle problem that even women are ignoring as they yell “equality” in the faces of the obvious oppressors but not the overt oppressors in their own community.
The most mainstream form of this oppression is labeled “white feminism,” since racial tensions are running high throughout the United States, and the rest of the world. By simple observation and context clues, it’s easy to deduce that white feminism is the use of the ism to suit the needs of white women, then maybe to suit the needs of women of other races. As long as the needs of white women are being met, it seems these “feminists,” and advocates of “equality” are satisfied.
This problem extends to cultures. Black women are seen bashing other black women for not “rising above their social class.” Cuban women call Colombian women snobby. Caribbean women think they’re above Central American women. The list of discriminative stereotypes and prejudices goes on.
It’s even seen in the LGBTQ community, the community that appears to be the most united in times of turmoil. Bisexual women bash other bisexual women who are more attracted to one gender more than the other, but are attracted to both just the same. Transsexual women receive hate from other women with comments like, “You’re not a real woman.”
When addressing the issue of inequality, it can’t be addressed through a narrow scope of solely blaming men. That mindset won’t solve anything when play a role in their own oppression, and neither will the mainstream focus on white feminism when women of color are putting each other down. It’s a matter of attacking the issue at its core, and correcting internalized sexism.
