Why were early feminists fascistic on other issues? Many early feminists supported segregation and eugenics, even the founder of planned parenthood had ties to the KKK.What caused feminists to become progressive on those other issues?
>>18220543Women are naturally feminists
>>18220543>OP simping for feminism
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>>18220543tMost early feminists were upper class white chicks and they were furious that black men and white chuds could vote while they couldn’t. Eugenics was SCIENCE! and fit into the rational worldview of progressives, and of course there was class prejudice against the lower orders breeding uncontrolled.
>>18220543>What caused feminists to become progressive on those other issues?Second-wave feminism simply ran out of road. They had won most of their major battles for substantive equality in the West by the end of the 80s. Yet many women still felt that they were living in a world dominated by men, so the underlying demand for feminism remained strong. The move towards intersectionality that you get with third-wave feminism in the 90s was about enabling feminists to keep their concerns current on the side of the political spectrum most naturally sympathetic to them. They did this by attaching their interests to a wider progressive coalition via a new ideological framework that integrates womanhood as an essential underprivilege alongside dozens of other factors rooted in identity. This accelerated post-2012 with fourth-wave feminism, with its advocates seemingly thinking that the demographics of the US would decisively favour a feminist-minority alliance going forward.I personally think this project has been a massive failure as intersectional thought has come to be viewed as unfairly entrenching markers of identity like whiteness, maleness, or gender normativity as essential sins. Instead of creating a broad coalition, it has alienated many people from the left as they feel the intersectional left resents them or the people they love on the basis of their identity and will unfairly work against their interests within the framework of an inverted hierarchy of oppression. Furthermore, many of the groups the intersectional left seeks to ally aren't anywhere near as culturally progressive as they want them to be. It remains to be seen whether the intersectional left can ultimately escape this ideological cul-de-sac.
>>18220761Hello, feminist
>>18220543Not really. Many feminists supported Frederick Douglass. Karl Marx complained that american communists cared more about black rights and feminism than they cared about worker's rights.
