One White Feminist's Slow Bumbling Slightly Embarrassing Road To Understanding Intersectionality

http://www.thefrisky.com/2013-10-16/one-white-feminists-slow-bumbling-slightly-embarrassing-road-to-understanding-intersectionality/

I came across this interesting article about a feminist who was not aware of intersectionality and thus held privilege feminist views. In the article she discusses how she came to learn about intersectionality and shed her privileged feminisms.

The main point that she makes in this article si that she did not have an academic background in feminism. I really liked how she addressed that issue first because I know women who are feminist and hold very feminist views but don't often think of themselves as feminist because they don't terms for it. Feminism has this academic realm that includes things like theory and word like intersectionality and I often have to remind myself that not everyone has taken women and gender studies classes. This is something that I'm going to have to take into consideration while I'm doing my major project. I don't want things that I do and produce in regards to feminism to be so academic that not all women can benefit from it.

Another thing that I liked about this article was how she addressed another feminist's response to another article. Long story short, Quest Love, who is a musician wrote this article about how people view and treat him as a large dark black man. He talked about a time when he was in the elevator with a woman that he thought was attractive and he wanted to talk to her but the woman acted terrified of him. After he wrote this article a feminist wrote a response  to his article about women and safety and it really pissed me off. She took the whole focus away from his point and used it to push her own "feminist" agenda. She totally disregarded interstectionality and then slapped the term feminism on it and it bothered me so much, and I felt it was such a bad representation of what feminism truly is.

I thought this article offered a great perspective on learning acknowledging personal privilege with in feminism.