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The Exclusivity Of Historical Feminism

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Feminism has changed a startlingly wonderous amount over the years. It has changed to bring others into the community and to change the media induced expectations of feminism. Such delusions perpetuated by the media as: angry, white, cisgendered women who hate men are all feminists. For the media to define feminism in this way makes young people veer away from feminism because in the medias perspective it is a hateful group. Feminism isn’t about hate. It is about equality for all but for a long time this didn’t apply to other races than white. The exclusivity of feminism has been its greatest flaw. The creation of intersectional feminism mended this flaw to create a more open and accepting feminism. This has become modern feminism. An intersectionalist community geared towards equality for all and the destruction of all forms of oppression. The intersectionality of race in feminism is the most prominent and important addition to the principles of the feminist movement. The interlocking of feminism and the rights of women have been debated and argued that women in the past and present …show more content…

By shutting out black women, lesbian women and other groups oppressed by identifying as women feminism loses some power and gains hate. Audrey Lorde and Patricia Hill Collins explain the outright exclusivity of feminist groups and feminist thought. They both explain this feeling of exclusivity of feminism and to be accepted into feminist culture black women must relinquish her blackness. To be accepted into black culture they must relinquish her feminism. Collins and Lorde explain their circumstance and difficulty of never being accepted by their communities and for the oppression they feel not being recognized as inequality by such communities. The intersectionality of feminism is the most inclusive and important change to feminism. This has created an air of acceptance and without competition of who is more

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