Thread by @portraitinflesh

Speaking up for middle aged white women is an unglamorous task, but I'm glad @HadleyFreeman does it, because someone has to.

I don't happen to agree with @HadleyFreeman's critique of #ItsASin, it was clear to me that in the scene in question, the mother was a stand-in for the whole edifice of shame that turned HIV/AIDS into a disaster. But I suppose you could still say, why cast a woman in that part?

I don't mean to suggest that middle-aged white women have it harder than other kinds of middle-aged women, far from it. But there are specific ways in which they've become scapegoats, as opposed to, to pull an example out of thin air, middle-aged white men. @HadleyFreeman

A consensus seems to be forming on the left that white women are more oppressors than oppressed because the "white" trumps the "woman" and they already have a seat at the table. As if white women don't get raped or affected by harsh abortion laws, etc.. @HadleyFreeman

That's not to say white women can't victimise anyone, obviously. But surely the point of intersectionality is that different axes of oppression don't cancel out? @HadleyFreeman