Feminism, or the women’s movement, has been maligned on account of Western academic theory, which has little to do with the material reality of women and girls globally, and is not representative of the issues, concerns, or struggles of women and girls worldwide.
Imagine, for instance, telling a woman in India struggling to feed her children that “sex work is work” and she ought to feel empowered by choosing between starvation and rape.
Imagine, again, telling women in South Africa, euphemistically called “the rape capital of the world” that her attacker is more oppressed than she is because he identifies as a woman.
Imagine teaching young girls in Egypt that female genital mutilation is an exclusionary term, in a country where killing a woman for the supposed crime of adultery is de-facto legalized.
There is no rational, humane way to export gender identity ideology, dreamed up by Western academics and promoted by ‘cam girls’ online who never have physical contact with a man, who never fear for their lives, to most countries in the world. It is ideological colonization.
But women are organizing globally for their rights, and the women's movement not reflected by Western academia currently has, as its goal, an end to male violence, peace, an end to suffering and child marriage; these aims are the beating heart of solidarity and sisterhood.
What an awful insult to all women that Western gender identity ideology is being exported and so quickly adopted in policies and universities, the most privileged countries seeming almost deliberate in choking out women's resistance in nations where the worst abuses occur.
Those who carry on about intersectionality and inclusion are by far the most privileged people, with free time, internet connections, university degrees, and egos to feed, but I honestly believe the swelling tide of international sisterhood will, eventually, overcome.
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