Because every successful movement needs to recognize all differences, and define those differences to hold the truth for all the people, for individuals regardless of the ingroup or outgroup, the feminist movements must focus on authentic inclusion in order to avoid distortions of difference/experience,to promote diversity and intersectionality, and to be truly successful.
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I began by reading a collection of essays by Audre Lorde in her 1984 book Sister Outsider, to sense an enunciated philosophical writings by a feminist writer. In Audre Lorde's book I read the essays “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” “The Transformation of Silence,” and “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” these essays gave me the tools I needed to look …show more content…
Discussion Opposing # 1: Your inclusion will yield the progression of feminist
Some people will argue that including certain people in the feminist movements will stop the progression of feminism their excuse “we won’t add you know but will add you later.” But the rejection and the alienation of a group of people or individuals defeats the message of equality that we as feminist are fighting for. One example would be the many women of today that fear the inclusion of transgender women. They are afraid that the male experience and male privilege that trans women were born with will colonize male misogyny and therefore lead to male dominance in the feminist movement. But transgender woman are woman. Female equality has always been the center of the feminist movements, know remember that feminism is fighting for the equality of the sexes. As Adichie wrote in “We Should All Be Feminists,” “The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather that recognizing how we are” (Adichie, 2014). In this generation there is more than just male and female. Gender should be and eventually will be beyond what we were biologically born as. …show more content…
The women’s liberation movement excluded lesbians because they were trying to accomplish acceptability through their oppressors closeting their lesbian sisters. Which lead to a radical lesbian separatist movement and the progression and actualization of all women was minimized. The 1970 lesbian separatist movement recognized this stating that, “As long as male acceptability is primary - both to individual women and to the movement as a whole - the term lesbian will be used effectively against women. Insofar as women want only more privileges within the system, they do not want to antagonize male power. They instead seek acceptability for women’s liberation, and most crucial aspects of acceptability is to deny lesbianism - i, e. , to deny any fundamental challenge to the basis of female” (Radicallesbians, 1970). From the beginning women and men are put into categories encouraged, and expected to wear certain things, behave a certain way, have a certain attitude, and or have certain personality traits to be a man or to be a woman. Gender roles is a social construct there is no biological characteristics one is
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I began by reading a collection of essays by Audre Lorde in her 1984 book Sister Outsider, to sense an enunciated philosophical writings by a feminist writer. In Audre Lorde's book I read the essays “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” “The Transformation of Silence,” and “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” these essays gave me the tools I needed to look …show more content…
Discussion Opposing # 1: Your inclusion will yield the progression of feminist
Some people will argue that including certain people in the feminist movements will stop the progression of feminism their excuse “we won’t add you know but will add you later.” But the rejection and the alienation of a group of people or individuals defeats the message of equality that we as feminist are fighting for. One example would be the many women of today that fear the inclusion of transgender women. They are afraid that the male experience and male privilege that trans women were born with will colonize male misogyny and therefore lead to male dominance in the feminist movement. But transgender woman are woman. Female equality has always been the center of the feminist movements, know remember that feminism is fighting for the equality of the sexes. As Adichie wrote in “We Should All Be Feminists,” “The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather that recognizing how we are” (Adichie, 2014). In this generation there is more than just male and female. Gender should be and eventually will be beyond what we were biologically born as. …show more content…
The women’s liberation movement excluded lesbians because they were trying to accomplish acceptability through their oppressors closeting their lesbian sisters. Which lead to a radical lesbian separatist movement and the progression and actualization of all women was minimized. The 1970 lesbian separatist movement recognized this stating that, “As long as male acceptability is primary - both to individual women and to the movement as a whole - the term lesbian will be used effectively against women. Insofar as women want only more privileges within the system, they do not want to antagonize male power. They instead seek acceptability for women’s liberation, and most crucial aspects of acceptability is to deny lesbianism - i, e. , to deny any fundamental challenge to the basis of female” (Radicallesbians, 1970). From the beginning women and men are put into categories encouraged, and expected to wear certain things, behave a certain way, have a certain attitude, and or have certain personality traits to be a man or to be a woman. Gender roles is a social construct there is no biological characteristics one is