Silly brown women, feminists NEED you

August 30, 2013 By Janet Bloomfield (aka JudgyBitch) 53 Comments

Now run along and take care of those little white babies.

I’ve been following the #solidarityisforwhitewomen hashtag on twitter and chortling rather gleefully every time someone tweets a total burn!

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen&src=hash

I’ve argued before that feminism as a political ideology only caters to white women who work outside the home for wages, and that white women have approximately zero interest in seeing life get any better for the women who do all the shit work white ladies are too precious to submit to.

http://judgybitch.com/2013/01/30/feminism-is-a-voice-that-speaks-for-all-women-as-long-as-youre-white-and-rich-and-you-work-outside-the-home-the-rest-of-you-bitches-can-step-off/

What I find really, really interesting is that not only are feminists unwilling to look at how their cushy lives are made possible by all the work that women of color do, they don’t even seem willing to reach out to those women who have broken through the cultural barriers to achieve the feminist white lady version of success. How many writers at Jezebel, Slate, the HuffPo Women, the Frisky, xoJane and any other number of feminist blogs have nannies and housekeepers who work, most likely, without standard labor force protections and benefits that white ladies pretty much take for granted?

How many white feminists writers stop in the middle of their oh-so-important work to text the nanny not to forget about Imogen’s dentist appointment and the bus fare is on the table?

If feminists were the exceptions, the wonderful employers who provided fair wages and benefits and working conditions to THEIR black women, don’t you think they would trumpet that from the rooftops?

crickets

Yeah, not so much, huh?

http://www.domesticworkers.org/pdfs/HomeEconomicsEnglish.pdf

I find it a little sad that black women are still trying to find some way to have a conversation with white women about how they can be included in the whole feminist discussion. Here is Mikki Kendall, the woman who started the whole hastag, reflecting on the experience.

Even now, in my conversations with other women of color it has come up often, how White the narrative around feminism is, and how that Whiteness lends itself to the erasure of the problems specifically facing women of color. Early #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen tweets were an expression of my personal frustrations with an ongoing problem in digital feminist communities. However, the conversation rapidly moved beyond the personal into the structural problems that have kept this divide in feminism alive.

http://www.ebony.com/news-views/on-feminist-solidarity-and-community-453/2#axzz2d2EB4o50

Ah, the structural problems. There’s the rub. And here’s the truth: white women cannot participate in the labor force without having an exploitable source of domestic labor, and the culture of entrenched poverty and single motherhood in the black community continuously creates a workforce for white women to use and abuse.

It might be ugly to read, but there you have it. There are two things white feminists do NOT want to encourage or examine in any meaningful way: solidarity between men and women of color, and women of color who are closing the gap with white lady accomplishments. Both of those things threaten women’s exploitable pool of poor workers, and if those workers disappear, so do market opportunities for white women.

Someone MUST do the dirty work. Someone MUST cook and clean and tend to the very old and the very young. And that someone is NOT going to be a fancy feminist with her Women’s Studies degree and ambitions to get the top salary at that not for profit agency she works for providing services based on whatever ideological bullshit the agency has been able to spin to Big Daddy government.

And we’re talking a lot of money. One day, I will have to track down all the grants and funding directed specifically towards women, and unpack just how much cash is at stake for the professional feminist brigade. It didn’t take me long to find this site:

http://www.americasgotgrants.com/grants-for-women.php

Raise your hand now if you are SHOCKED that I cannot find a grants for men mirror site. The America’s Got Grants homepage explicitly offers “women” as a category. But not men. There are no grants specifically for men. Men have to qualify under some condition other than “genitals”.

http://www.americasgotgrants.com/

American white women get a lot of assistance in the form of cash from the Federal Government, but it’s not enough to cover all the expenses. White women still need a helping hand. Successful white women are successful because they have women of color to stand on.

Awww. That’s so sweet. I love that women of color are willing to leave their own children all day to go and take care of white babies. Makes me wanna go buy Aunt Jemima pancake syrup right now.

http://www.returnofkings.com/12753/successful-women-use-poor-women-to-advance

You know what’s really funny? That stereotype about black women being really sassy and loudmouthed and sarcastic and caustic and angry? Where is it now? Latina women have kind of the same caricature applied to them, no? If EVER there was a time to get mouthy and rude, this is it. White women have built an entire political ideology on the backs of women of color and the best women of color can do is call them out gently and respectfully?

Y’all need to get your bitch on, if you ask me.

These two tweets in particular caught my attention:

I would personally think these idea through really carefully. White feminists have a vested interest in making sure that relations between men and women of color are deeply fractured and hostile. Marriage is one of the best ways to build wealth and transmit it to the next generation, in effect becoming “economically white”. I’ll add the disclaimer that not all white people are married and wealthy, and those who aren’t have the same shitty choices as any other poor person, but of all the families that are rich, most of them are white, heterosexual couples with children.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/08/27/yes-the-rich-are-different/

And they have their own colored folks to pick up the slack and keep life ticking along smoothly.

It really sucks that whenever we talk in the media about women of color, it’s usually along the lines of poor, illiterate, uneducated, exploited, blah blah blah and here I am doing the exact same thing. That’s not to say we shouldn’t be discussing the social and cultural aspects of race and gender, but when that’s ALL we discuss, it’s a problem.

So let’s end today talking about the enormous strides women of color have been making in the managerial and professional occupational categories. It ain’t great news, but it’s good.

The employment of women of color increased dramatically in the period between 1990 and 2001. The rate of change for African American women is the lowest increase at 43 percent and the rate of change for Hispanic women is the highest at 104 percent.

Although women of color still remain a relatively small percentage of all officials and managers, their increase in the decade between 1990 and 2001 is dramatic. Their rates of changes range from 75 percent for African American women to 135 percent for Asian women.

http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/reports/womenofcolor/womenofcolor.pdf

Women of color continue to push their way to the top of the economic ladder, and in one sense that’s really great. Our entire economy and society is built on the assumption that the cream rises to the top. The barriers we put in place against the truly smart and capable and intelligent and ambitious for spurious reasons like race or ability or class or gender hurts our whole society.

We need our human capital. But all that human capital starts out in the same form.

Women of color scrambling their way to the top still need their toilets scrubbed and their kids fed and the laundry done.

It comes back to the same question: who is doing the grunt work?

If women of color think feminism is going to help them untangle the web of domestic labor and race and social conditions, they are sadly mistaken. White women have no incentive to do so, and don’t even want to have the conversation.

They can’t afford to. How are white ladies supposed to storm the barricades without colored women to man the fort?

http://impactofilms.com/maidinamerica/

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all. – Tori Amos

Tori Amos?? Oh really, Tori?

I wonder what your housekeeper thinks about that?

Lots of love,

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Janet Bloomfield has an undergraduate degree in Film Theory and she has read most historical and current feminist theory. No, she doesn't need a dictionary. She was banned from Twitter for creating the hashtag #WomenAgainstFeminism, which continues to flourish without her presence. She has an MBA and a rewarding career as a wife to her husband of 15 years and a mother to their three children. She uses her spare time to bake cookies, blog at www.judgybitch.com and she cares passionately about the well-being of women and girls and men and boys around the world.

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Bewildered

Awwwwwww ! JB I love your style of exposing hypocrites !
http://gloriusbastard.com/ JJ

Hahahahahaha, JB gettin froggy.

If I was not married, had kids, and knowing you had the same….this sailor might storm your barricade. Your husband has to be alpha, or you would eat him alive.

Speaking of which, my wife is the same, and she is of color. MIT level educated from South Asia, and is 30 competing with people almost twice her age for project manager positions. Whose got game? THIS GUY!

Even 20 years ago, she would have had a hard time and we would not have moved here. I am a sailor, white, very high IQ, very capable, and I am struggling to get work. My wife is beating off offers with a stick.

Where else will you find a minority woman, with her level of education in an engineering field (MBA), with kids already (thanks to me, hahahaha), who can read/write/speak four languages and translate them into code?

She is literally a three for one tax break to any company that hires her. I get them nothing but an experienced hand (white veteran). So basically, after the downsizing of the military these last few years, I am a dime a dozen.

Thanks feminism, and when it comes to my harassing you in the courts, telling every college student who will listen, getting my foreign wife to reign on your parade, and hopefully (after I win my family law case) I can start making money to better volunteer and arm these wonderful people here; I can’t wait to see your face when I say “you’re welcome” in person!

#feminismisforstupidfeminists
#feminismsucks
#JBiscool
#veteransneedmorehanthatkindoflovin!
http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/ St. Estephe

“White women have no incentive to do so, and don’t even want to have the conversation. They can’t afford to. How are white ladies supposed to storm the barricades without colored women to man the fort?”

Hey, have a heart. White men are refusing to man up and make themselves available for hefty alimony payments: the traditional source of income and status of the empowered independent American woman of status for the past 150 years. The servant class is just picking up the slack left by men “manning down.” These gals gotta have a slave. They are just adapting.
crydiego

It is black women who are truly standing up and ringing the bell for equality and rightfully so! It is their time to take the stage and be heard!
- Nightwing1029
  
  Really? It’s their time?
  So, at no other point in history should black women stood up for their rights, as human beings?
  What about men? Aren’t men standing up for equality?
  Might want to put a little more thought into that comment, bro.
  - Nightwing1029
    
    *Should black women have stood up…
    Damn typo.
Bewildered

These gals gotta have a slave. They are just adapting.

:giggle: :giggle: roflmao!
Oh! shit! I have just indulged in verbal assault/rape.
https://www.facebook.com/ArtworkOfSpidernoir Spidernoir

More and more WOC are starting to realize NOW that feminism doesn’t give a shit about POC (Men or Women) and never have. I love reading new articles daily that tells the truth of feminism.

We’re lip service, that’s all we’ve ever been.

I got into an argument with a feminist, who told me that as a Black Man I have benefits that Black Women don’t, and I have no right to feel bad about not being to go to/afford college or not being to provide for my mom and brother, because you know black male privilege.

I asked her to name what I can do that they can’t….

Silence is what I got.

I guess I have the privilege of being arrested and falsely accused, because I happen to fit the description …..or assumed I’m in a gang or a thug, or a rapist simply because of a statistic that is flawed on soo many levels. Or denied a job because people are soo happy to hear I’m interested on the phone, but surprised I’m Black in person….(We found someone else, ignore the surprised look on my face btw the way).

Being between poor/ low low middle class is the shit.

Got damn look at me basking in my own privilege. It doesn’t get any better than staying at home feeling like absolute shit because you can’t help your mom and brother by going to school.
- Theseus
  
  Yeah Black men have the “privilege” of being murdered, arrested, and out on the street and homeless at a far higher rate. So shut up you stupid privileged male you; you don’t know how good you’ve got it. Lol
  
  All feminists have done with POC is use them as accessories and try to jump on the bandwagon.
  
  Let me tell you, I’m not the most pleasant chap when talking to a feminist that tries to compare her spoiled, privileged ass to POC.
  
  “Women and minorities”
  
  What a joke.
  - http://www.imnotamensrightsactivistbut.wordpress.com Isaac T. Quill
    
    “All feminists have done with POC is use them as accessories and try to jump on the bandwagon.”
    
    It’s been ongoing for so long – I’ve traced explicit examples of it back to the 1970’s whilst researching the origins of “Rape Culture” the film.
    
    Lorreta Ross provides a number of amusing observations about WASP Feminists and how they treat black people – they are in her recorded Interviews with Joyce Follet for Smith College Archives.
    
    “And for the most part, people respected the rules and the guidelines. Now where it got complicated was when some of the white women started going to the prison, and then they were the ones that started breaking the rules about smuggling things to the guys and stuff. Harmless stuff. Tennis shoes or whatever stuff like that, but William had to kick a couple of guys out of the group (Prisoners Against Rape Inc) because they had started relationships with women who had come down there through the Rape Crisis Center. Unfortunately, they were all white, the women were. And, so that was hard to manage and just — how come she was a lesbian until she met him? (laughs) you know, kind of cynical stuff was happening. But I did enjoy dealing with Prisoners Against Rape. ”
    
    &
    
    “And so, managing the volunteers — and the volunteers were always almost all white, so you’re dealing with the clients that are almost always black, the volunteers that are always white, the leadership or management that’s black, the board of directors that was almost totally white, and so there was just so many racial issues just within our institution.”
    
    WASP Feminists and not just WOC but people of colour has been an issue since at least 1973….. so don’t let the White Wash of any WASP media cover up the realities of abuse and structural inequality WITHIN US Centric 2nd wave feminism from it’s conception to today.
- Mick Price
  
  “Silence is what I got.”
  And is there anything you wanted from her more?
http://www.imnotamensrightsactivistbut.wordpress.com Isaac T. Quill

It is comical watching white feminists having to play catch up given how advanced they believed themselves to have been. There is much hand wringing and and so many white fem blogistas are all getting worried about waist lines and the fall collections.

Gucci, Gaultier and Dolce & Cabba Boy are all rushing out new designs to deal with the level of humble pie bloating that has been see all over Manhatten – and that was just around the Jeezahell offices.

I have enjoyed Mikki Kendall slapping the likes of Amoaner Marcotte, Silly Jilly Filipovic, Jessica Gawk Coen and the one and only Jessica Rabbit Valenti all over the pages of the Guardian as well as asking impertinent questions about all at Feministe, Jezebel and Pandagon.

Oh and Mikki Kendall royally rubs Schwyzer’s nose in it too!
gateman

Count the non-white women at the recent slutwalk (i got zero) – video courtesy of MR Edmonton.
- http://www.imnotamensrightsactivistbut.wordpress.com Isaac T. Quill
  
  That may have had something to do with a WOC telling Slutwalkers back in Sept 2011 that they were Barking Up the Wrong Tree – “An Open Letter from Black Women to the SlutWalk” – September 23, 2011.
  
  So many folks agreed that Slutwalk was Wrong Headed – from Radfem Pof Gail Dines, to multiple bloggers and activists who ranged in skin tone from Mocha to Midnight.
  
  This one stuck in my memory:
  
  “If SlutWalk has proven anything, it is that liberal white women are perfectly comfortable parading their privilege, absorbing every speck of airtime celebrating their audacity, and ignoring women of color. ”
  
  SlutWalk: A Stroll Through White Supremacy – May, 2011.
  
  Then you look at the behaviour of the Slutwalkers over the women of India who re-branded Slutwalk as “Besharmi Morcha” – and then objected to this as they didn’t want their Global Brand watered down. Then they turned up in Delhi (Have Credit Card will Activist over the weekend in Foreign Parts) and set out to monopolise all media and attention.
  
  The W.A.S.P. feminists (American W.A.S.P. Feminist – White, Angry, Superior Proud Of It) have been so annoyed that other people’s can’t be bothered to speak English, Act American and not see the US W.A.S.P. Feminist as the fashion Icon and ideal that she perceives herself to be.
  
  PS it’s worth following the dines link to YouTube and watch the reports from Dines – and the best bit for me is when she reports about the conduct of a Founder of Slutwalk and so many other White Middle Class Women.
Bombay

So when feminists call MRAs racist, they are merely projecting.
- Theseus
  
  You got it!
  
  It made me sick when they were acting all concerned and horrified over Trayvon Martin; I guess being largely responsible for ripping black children away from fathers in family court, and innocent black men being jailed for trumped up DV charges and false rape accusations doesn’t count!
  - Flying Turtle
    
    They’re only concerned when they can point a finger at someone else.
    
    The evils they commit don’t count.
- http://www.avoiceformen.com August Løvenskiolds
  
  When feminists hate on all men, they necessarily hate on black men, and all other men, too.
  - Theseus
    
    Yup. Fems want to have it both ways, just like all their other arguments. The only consistent thing that you can count on is how inconsistent they are; it must be nice to be able to morph your standpoint to any given situation.
    
    “Male privilege” has to mean by extension black men, brown men, gay men, poor men, handicapped men etc as well. They are MEN. There is no escaping this, otherwise it’s a meaningless concept; yet when you point out this black hole sized flaw in their argument these femtards will try to argue and deny it.
- Mick Price
  
  Yeah big surprise there.
FrayedLace

I´ve always seen the modern feminist movement in western countries as a white female supremacy movement led by people that were already spoiled before they ever even got involved. I think they view minorities and the gay community as merely people that are “useful” at the moment.

Fortunately, as this tiny Men´s Human Rights Movement has begun to gain momentum the last couple years, I have noticed more white women, minority men and women, and members of the LGBT community giving us favorable attention. I, for one, find that to be quite wonderful.
Flying Turtle

Thank you. The hypocrisy endemic to feminism needs as much airing as possible. Anti-minority, anti-poor, anti-men anti-anyone that doesn’t drink deep of the poor plight of those woefully discriminated against rich and middle class white women.

Yet they dare call men, no matter what they’re race or economic status, privileged.
Shrek6

Coloured women have a way out of this and in fact, they have a way of gaining true equity with both men of all colours and with white women too.
All they have to do, is drop the feminist dogma from their lives and hitch their wagons to the MHRM.

Coloured women of all races should also consider WGTOW (not from men only, but from the servitude of white women). It’s time coloured women stood up for themselves and told the lazy white bitches to look after their own spoilt progeny and clean their own dunnies(Aussie for toilet).

The traditional MRM would not be able to handle having coloured women being on side with them, because they were not mature enough to work and think at that level.
However this emerging MHRM has the maturity and the desire to rise above the sex argument and to tackle this Marxist bullshit head on, but do it with whomever is prepared to walk alongside them. This includes women of good heart.

Sad to say though. I don’t think women in general, and I mean of all races/colour, have the maturity to make such a decision.

Because of their heard mentality, women in general are too stupid to see that there is a clear path ahead of them that will lead them out of the rut they are currently in, but it means linking arms with their brothers(of all colours/races) and fighting this Marxist evil head on.

Women(and girls) of all levels of society have drunk the feminist cool aid to the point of being drunk on it, and that now their whole beings have been changed even to the genetic level.

There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that they will change their minds until there is some unilateral force in this world to give them all a huge slap in the face to wake them up.

Something like a one world dictatorship that started slaughtering women of all colour and race, would probably shock them into adulthood. By then though, it would be far too late!
- Shrek6
  
  Geez, I can’t spell. I meant herd mentality, not ‘heard!’
  - http://www.imnotamensrightsactivistbut.wordpress.com Isaac T. Quill
    
    Oddly – many saw no issue. The hear and herd automatically. Maybe we need to add it to the MHRA Lexicon – the Feminist Aural Auto Herding Traits – or FAAHT for short.
http://kevin-wayne.blogspot.com Kevin

Commenting just so I can read later [-}
increase_volume

“Intersectionality? We have a blonde, a redhead and a brunette…”

#solidarityisforwhitewomen is really awesome. What are all of the white feminist ladies gonna do now? It’s always heartening to see their shit get fucked up when it happens.

Thank you for the article.
prince_tybalt

I’ve quoted the biggest WOC feminist many times, but here we go again:

“It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement”
― Bell Hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
John Narayan

The future of western woman…

http://health.discovery.com/tv-shows/my-mom-is-obsessed

Every MHRA should watch this series.
Suburban Fieldsman

Face it, we wouldn’t have so many wars if (white) women were in charge of everything.
- crydiego
  
  Would they have to be in charge of everything?
  - Suburban Fieldsman
    
    That’s right, everything. They HAVE to be in charge of EVERYTHING.
    - crydiego
      
      Wow, that’s a lot of things. Most of them would have to work two jobs and I’m not sure they’re up to it.
      Now the big question: Who would be responsible for everything?
      - Fredrik
        
        Well duh, men are responsible for everything, whether or not we have control of it.
- Narf
  
  There would be fewer shooting wars, but a LOT more mass starvation. Remember that men will put a bullet through your head, but women will poison everyone in your family and destroy all the records that you ever existed in the first place. Men are goal-oriented and will usually quit after achieving the goal; women thrive on states of being, and will draw out the pain and suffering as long as they can, long after the initial goal was achieved.
Jon Gunnarsson

I must object to your presumption that nannies and childcare workers employed by feminists are being exploited. What’s your justification or evidence for that? The only thing you present in the article is that feminists do not brag about providing good working conditions for them. Surely that’s rather flimsy.

We all want to think the worst of feminists, but even they deserve at least some benefit of the doubt. What is this exploitation supposed to consist of? Do they make false promises to their nannies? Do they refuse to pay them for overtime, contrary to what was agreed previously? Do they beat them? Do they force them to work against their will?

Taking a page out of your book, if you had any evidence of that, you would have presented it. You talk about these women not being paid fair wages. But what does that mean? What is a fair price? And how could you possibly know that? What makes your arbitrary value judgement of the fairness of a price superior to that of the people actually involved?
- http://beijaflorbeyondthesunset.wordpress.com Rick Westlake
  
  This isn’t even wrong.
- Alex462
  
  The coloured women employed by the white women get paid the market rate for their labour (low), which is exactly the situation in which the white women work , yet complain about and sell their votes to liberals to enact legislation forcing employers to pay them “fairly”
  
  If the financial compensation to white women for their work at market rate is unfair and discriminatory, then they are hypocrites for paying their own wage slaves the market rate for their labour.
  
  >Do they make false promises to their nannies? Do they refuse to pay them for overtime, contrary to what was agreed previously? Do they beat them? Do they force them to work against their will?
  
  Do any of these apply to white women in the office?
  
  Comprende, ese?
  - Jon Gunnarsson
    
    Had Janet merely pointed out the hyprocrisy of feminists who (presumably) complain about low wages for women while paying low wages to the women who work for them, then I wouldn’t have commented. But that’s not what she did. She actually accuses them of exploitation.
    - OneHundredPercentCotton
      
      I agree with you, Jon. I’ve put in 12 hour/6 days a week work hours, and yes, I admit I hired Molly Maids to come in once every two weeks, and God bless them. It wasn’t cheap, but it was worth it.
      
      My neighbor was a University Professor who worked part time and spent every penny on house keepers, having her laundry sent out and her groceries delivered not because she was LAZY but because she wanted to keep her tenure for returning to work AFTER her kids were grown. She spent every minute enjoying her kids instead of playing keep up with the housework. She had a full time job to return to afterwards AND social security benefits, which as a SAHM I certainly don’t.
      
      THAT being said, it’s true hypocrisy for the same women who claim being a mother is the HARDEST, most VALUABLE job that exists – then pays some other woman less than slave wages to do her mothering for her.
      
      That is VERY common, especially among very wealthy women.
    - Alex462
      
      I read it as satire, applying the same femnazi logic to their own behaviour.
      
      The point is, coloured women are treated as fairly as white women were, until they clawed all this privilege to themselves.
      
      Ultimately, if the white women were not employing the coloured women, they would be worse off, not having any jobs to go to vs having a low-paid one.
      
      This just demonstrates the rank hypocrisy of privileged young middle class liberal white women.
      - OneHundredPercentCotton
        
        Really? I existed in the times before “feminism” and women “clawing privilege to themselves” and never saw any “Coloreds And Women Only” signs – and I grew up in the segregated South.
        
        Never saw white women required to sit in the back of the bus, never saw white women barred from restaurants or washrooms, or from “certain” parts of town, or from expensive department stores, or schools, or churches, or Universities.
        
        I’ve SEEN white women wield just as much privilege as their white male counterparts. In fact, I’ve seen photos of black men hanging from trees on the mere say so of white women, but never the other way around.
        
        As I’ve said before, “Oppressed” WOC and white women were marching and burning their bras while demanding “equality” at exactly the same time white AND black men were being drafted and forced against their will to die horrific deaths in Vietnam.
        
        This just demonstrates the rank hypocrisy of anything and everything to do with Feminism and all those who embraced it – including WOC.
      - Alex462
        
        Cotton: I’m kind of confused. What is your point, exactly?
        
        I’m saying that white women have never been oppressed. This does not prevent them from clawing privileges, such as alimony, exemption from the draft, reduced sentencing etc etc
        
        A privilege is a benefit to you, which is not granted to everyone.
      - OneHundredPercentCotton
        
        “coloured women are treated as fairly as white women were, until they clawed all this privilege to themselves”
        
        Sorry I misread your comment to mean something else entirely.
        
        I’d have to question what privilege white women clawed for themselves that WOC missed out on, however. I know for a FACT that a girl graduating from HS with a Hispanic surname will be unindated with scholarship offers, and a qualified WOC is considered a most desirable “”twofer” female/minority in hiring requirement considerations.
        
        My son is considering giving his children his wife’s Asian last name instead of his undeniably German last name just so his children of either gender have opportunities for scholarships that he, as a dreadful privileged white man, has been denied.
      - crydiego
        
        “The point is, coloured women are treated as fairly as white women were, until they clawed all this privilege to themselves.”
        
        Say What, they were treated as fairly as white women were?!!!! When are you talking about?
        
        And, as an aside: The bra burning and kick off of feminism was in 1968, the same year the civil rights bill was passed. After that, the air started leaking out of the civil rights movement and began filling the feminist air ship.
        Plain and simple, the government was afraid of the civil rights movement. It was too big, too organized and had momentum. That all ended with feminism.
      - Alex462
        
        Wow, it did not even cross my radar that that sentence could be taken in such completely opposite ways. Such a clumsy language, eh?
        
        Cotton, certainly, coloured middle class women may be privileged through their education and job prospects, but I don’t think you can apply the same to bottom class, uneducated coloured women. Hiring a coloured cleaner hardly improves your business’ racial image, now, does it?
        
        Cry: I don’t think the government is afraid of anything, except, perhaps a large percentage of clear thinkers within the population, though they have, of course neatly destroyed that with publicly funded education.
        The civil rights movement merely presented a vote harvesting opportunity for the democrats. They don’t actually give a shit what the political lie of the land is, so long as their stranglehold on their human chattel is maintained.
dungone

I have absolutely no problem with women hiring nannies. I just want them to stop being such bigots when they blame everything on men.
lifeonborder-line

I have one thing to add that its as much race as class based. It just happens that a higher proportion of minority women are lower class then white. My wife is black and her Mother used low paid and possibly illegal immigrants for nanny services when she was growing up. My wife has been looking for low paid, primarily minority sitters for our kids so she can do her thing but I like this article. Its spot on but I would just expand it to basing it on socio economic status. I read it too fast and there is mention of class. But I believe it is almost completely class driven. Moral of the story is people should cook, clean and take care of their own kids or not have them
- OneHundredPercentCotton
  
  “people should cook, clean and take care of their own kids or not have them”
  
  mmmm. Why is that exactly?
  
  I’m sure Maria Shriver-Schwartznegger might agree with that in hind sight, but just being a wife for a lot of upper middle class to wealthy women IS a full time job representing their husband’s business or political interests.
  
  Michelle Obama is not cooking or cleaning any toilets in the White House nor is she with her kids 24/7 for instance.
  
  In this day and age it’s not even a matter of selfishness or indulgence that many couples BOTH have to work to keep above the poverty level – and it’s only getting worse. I was a cookin’, cleanin’ and full time SAHM for 16 years, but I don’t think I could pull it off today. I barely did then, and financially I’m paying the price for breaking from the herd now (though, by God, I can brag I have the greatest kids).
  
  My husband followed his own father in exactly the same job and I can tell you – what was a “comfortable” one income job in his father’s day and age is poverty level now. Union busting, corporate raiding, pay cuts, off shoring jobs and pension default – who foresaw that happening in America so soon and so completely?
  - Alex462
    
    >Union busting, corporate raiding, pay cuts, off shoring jobs and pension default – who foresaw that happening in America so soon and so completely?
    
    Anyone with an ounce of common sense.
    
    Unions are responsible for a lot of the woes, and the government for the rest.
alibaba

What is this article doing on this site? The author seems to be thumbing her nose at “white” feminists while taking the side of “women of color” (or at least pretending to).

Why are we acting like feminists “of color” are any less misandric on the whole than feminists of non-color are? As Sun Tzu says, let your enemies fight amongst themselves. Why give feminists “of color” a knife with which to stab “white” feminists when those “FOC” will only come back to stab us with the knife?
Narf

I have long held that our culture, despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth about “the Patriarchy”, is centered around the care of women in general and white women in particular. The very fact that affluent, white females screech about minor inconveniences as though they are catastrophes speaks volumes: the most coddled demographic is the most reactive to minor frustrations, while those who work for what they have are more able to live with the latter.

As Terrence Popp has documented, there are over 100 separate programs devoted to financial aid explicitly for women, and zero explicitly for men. The welfare state (TANF, food stamps, S-CHIP, Medicaid, et. al.) is overwhelmingly female; but feminists will scream and seize at the suggestion that women are the dependent class–then turn right around and scream and seize about a “war on women!” if anyone dares reduce welfare spending in the slightest.

Then odd, random demographic information starts to filter in: most women on welfare are white, most abortions are black, the “This is What a Feminist Looks Like!” t-shirts being made by brown women in sweatshops whilst paraded by lily-white women on camera.* I’m not suggesting a conspiracy here, but it’s nearly impossible to miss the self-organization inherent in feminism. This is what biologists call “emergent behavior” in a given demographic, and psychologists have called the “Queen Bee Syndrome”… when not being damned by feminists who claim it doesn’t exist.

* http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/02/this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like-t-shirts-were-made-in-sweatshops-4931375/
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“Colored people are like human weeds and need to be exterminated.” – Margaret Sanger

“I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision.” – Hilary Clinton

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