{"id":4869,"date":"2014-01-13T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2014-01-13T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T20:57:11","slug":"white-feminists-strive-to-determine-what-feminism-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/white-feminists-strive-to-determine-what-feminism-is\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;White feminists&#8221; want to determine what feminism is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabulous post by Betty Mamzelle on the white <a href=\"http:\/\/battymamzelle.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/This-Is-What-I-Mean-When-I-Say-White-Feminism.html\">privilege of &#8220;White Feminism&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/white-feminists-strive-to-determine-what-feminism-is\/ninjacates_guide_to_white_feminism_final_a-01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninjacates_guide_to_white_feminism_FINAL_A-01-300x244.png\" alt=\"Betty Mamzelle&#039;s guide to white feminism\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4870\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninjacates_guide_to_white_feminism_FINAL_A-01-300x244.png 300w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninjacates_guide_to_white_feminism_FINAL_A-01-225x183.png 225w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninjacates_guide_to_white_feminism_FINAL_A-01-1024x833.png 1024w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/ninjacates_guide_to_white_feminism_FINAL_A-01.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This, in a nutshell, is about how white people feel they own the right to dominate a conversation (or a movement) and tell other people what can and cannot be discussed; who&#8217;s in and who&#8217;s out; what topics are allowable and which are not; and what&#8217;s important v. what is not &#8230; and how those beliefs extend to the battleground of feminism.<\/p>\n<p>Even though feminism is supposedly about protecting women from other-abuse, &#8220;white feminists&#8221; feel perfectly comfortable browbeating or excluding women who don&#8217;t fit their concept of what feminism is supposed to be. Betty says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White feminism is a set of beliefs that allows for the exclusion of issues that specifically affect women of colour. It is &#8220;one size-fits all&#8221; feminism, where middle class white women are the mould that others must fit.  It is a method of practicing feminism, not an indictment of every individual white feminist, everywhere, always.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She goes on to list quite a few incidents of ways this truth has manifested itself in the world of feminism. Shockingly, each of the many incidents she mentions took place just within the past year \u2013 from publication of her post on 10 Jan 2014. Links to the stories are provided. <\/p>\n<p>Go Betty!<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/okaikor\">Okaikor Aryee-Price<\/a> for this fabulous find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabulous post by Betty Mamzelle on the white privilege of &#8220;White Feminism&#8221;. This, in a nutshell, is about how white people feel they own the right to dominate a conversation (or a movement) and tell other people what can and cannot be discussed; who&#8217;s in and who&#8217;s out; what topics are allowable and which are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/white-feminists-strive-to-determine-what-feminism-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;White feminists&#8221; want to determine what feminism is&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[979,1,1082,563,1028],"tags":[467,1418,1421,1417,1419,1420],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-all","category-dei","category-justice","category-women","tag-people-of-color","tag-poc","tag-relevant","tag-white-feminism","tag-woc","tag-women-of-color"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}