Fair enough. this website actually makes me angry and the anger has been motivating my response. So here goes:
1. The entire premise of "confronting white womanhood" presupposes that characteristics like skin color predetermines behavior.
1. The entire premise of "confronting white womanhood" presupposes that characteristics like skin color predetermines behavior.
2. The entire website is an exercise in contradiction. It links to articles where we are told to stop stereotyping people of color all while stereotyping white women.
3. The approach reduces whole groups of people into political abstractions, placing them into compartmentalized boxes as though every single white woman's experience is the same and every single non-white person's experience is the same. They are not.
4. Consider this article everydayfeminism.com/2016/07/protec…
There are many conflations in this piece but the astounding irony is that the author demands that white women stop stereotyping black men all while stereotyping white women as individuals constantly thinking about black men.
There are many conflations in this piece but the astounding irony is that the author demands that white women stop stereotyping black men all while stereotyping white women as individuals constantly thinking about black men.
5. This harkens back to Ta-Nehisi Coates's book, 'Between the World and Me,' where Coates assumes that a white woman who shoves his child does so because of "white womanhood" when actually she could have done that because she's just a b*tch who would do that to anyone.
6. Iintersectional feminism is like Original Sin in Christianity: a shallow commentary on the depth of who we are as human beings; there is much more to our behavior than gender & skin color & reducing the value of individuals to such categories has led to genocide in the past.
7. The entire tone of this website reads like something out of Ralph Ellison's 'The Invisible Man:' Like the brotherhood in the novel, this sorority reduces the individual to nothingness.
8. This hideous notion that my personal empowerment is somehow linked to whether or not white women will talk about how bad they've been is a) false, b) wreaks of paternalism, c) wreaks of white guilt and d) pardon me, its insane.
9. The proper question to be asked is, how do we as citizens in American society, attempting to make our lives and our interactions with each other better for both ourselves & our children work together to empower each other, to lift one other up, & ensure that we all flourish?
10. If a young Hispanic man doesnt deem himself worthy of being able to engage with people who don't look like him, including white women, this isnt the time for a lesson in "white womanhood" but in self-respect; he doesnt have it & he wont get it by you publishing these websites
11. Im referring once again to the article linked on the website. The proper response is to tell that young man that he is worthy of love and belonging, that the world can be his, and that we need him, and that he is worth it.
12. The message to black people and white people and Hispanic people and Asian people and Jewish people and Muslim people and all people in this space is to tell them that we need them, that they are worthy of love and belonging and that they are worth it. Period. End of story.
13. The confronting white womanhood website is as another person recently stated, "a pure performative examination of self through a kaleidoscopic lens of self to arrive at a rarefied conclusion about the triumph of the self over any concept of responsibility to altruism.
