Having a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment Liza?

Like Tex, I'm very sad as well and like you I can even begin to describe how I sputtered when I first saw this at Brownfemipower's blog. Earlier in the day, I'd read Happy Feminist rabbiting on about poor white women and how no feminist consciousness exists among them. While she claimed to be talking about five families, she positioned herself and "feminism" as what's needed in order to save these women from egregious forms of sexism that apaprently do not occur in enlightened middle class homes.

It is this kind of silencing of the voices of women -- for manifold reasons that include imperialism, racism, slassism, ethnocentrism, elitistm, etc -- that is distressing. As I said over at Twisty Faster's blog: Women have been raising these issues since the inception of feminism but no one seems to be listening if you take a look at the mainstream blogs on the A list.

I'm extremely distressed that young, college educated women haven't encountered any critiques of their imperialist appropriation of the burka image, the way they silence the voices of the already silenced, the way they position themselves as living in a society that is on the brink of going backward like those dark-skinned Others we're bombing the hell out of them.

Well, there's more but this is all I have time for now.

I just wanted to say that I live in a red state and used to live in a blue state. The notion that sexism is any worse here than it is elsewhere in this country boggles my mind. It's reproducing the very same "othering" that goes on with claims about the backward brown people.

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