Healthcare, labor rights, and education are essential and worth fighting for. All benefit men and women - but because institutional sexism exists, change without a specific plan to address the disparity means better outcomes will benefit men more. That’s a feature, not a bug.
https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1292699525207949315
It’s a common refrain that because feminists demand policies that address sexism, their progressivism is fake or burdensome. The reality is that it’s not hard to make these adjustments, so when you say you’ll fix this thing first and then sexism after, we just don’t believe you.
Women and POC have spent at least the last 100 years being told that if we vote for policies that benefit everyone, our needs will be addressed too, but when things improve for us AND people who already have an advantage, the disparity widens - and it has.
Identity matters in politics because politics affect identities differently. It's not unfair to be skeptical of any movement that claims that isn't true.
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