I think you are missing the point on women. It was not all that long ago, really, that women could not own any of their own property. it all passed to the man on marriage, or if jointly generated, it was owned by the man. Marital rape was legal. in fact many women were worse than servants. servants could quit. it was in many respects leg…
I think you are missing the point on women. It was not all that long ago, really, that women could not own any of their own property. it all passed to the man on marriage, or if jointly generated, it was owned by the man. Marital rape was legal. in fact many women were worse than servants. servants could quit. it was in many respects legalized slavery.
You miss the point on trans people. there are many trans women that are doing so in good faith, i know some of them. But all people are just people. And a number of trans women are nothing of the sort but men who are using the current unclarity to take advantage of it. like: rapists being put in women's prisons. There is always someone who will take advantage, malevolence is an innate part of the human condition.
Your third point: most people are unaware that membership in a native american tribe is determined by the tribal council. (NAs are people too, just like everyone else, good and bad.) So, it should not come as a shock that there are instances of a tribal clan becoming dominant on a tribal council and then redefining what it means to be a tribal member so that all members of a competing clan are kicked out. Some of them in fact have lived nowhere else, speak only their traditional language, and have had little contact with non-Native america. What are these people? Well, they are not Native Americans. Native Americans are people who have enough blood quantum to be a member of the tribe. They have a number assigned to them. IF they make their living as a jeweler they can't call it native American jewelry. And they are claiming identity in "another culture or race" after having been denied the right to do so. What about the black slaves of Native American tribes? They gained their freedom after the Civil War but many had been part of the tribe for a long time and were given membership by the government. There were many who were not slaves but who had been adopted or married into the tribe. they were considered members of another culture.
(Oh, btw, the reasons that the tribes kick people out and that they kicked out all black members [overturned by the courts, which is very unusual] is for the money. Now that gambling is making so much, it is portioned out to members. fewer members, more money.) what about a white baby being adopted by a married black american family? who grows up in solely a black culture. what are they? People have been going in and out of other cultures and races as well a very long time. I don't think your points are subtle enough in their analysis.
The "feelings" of men who identify as women should not take legal precedence over the rights and feelings of biological women, yet that is EXACTLY what the Equality Act will do if it's ever passed by the Senate (It's already been passed by the Democratic House) and signed by Joe Biden as he wants. Women have been thrown under the bus and run over by the Democratic Party. That is a fact!
Acknowledged - my points lacked subtlety, partly because of my ignorance of the direct experience of being a woman or a "racialized" person in society. It was my best attempt to explain what still seems obvious to me: why "blackface" deserves condemnation in a way that trans women embodying/dressing-as women does not (per the original comment by DavidH).
I think you are missing the point on women. It was not all that long ago, really, that women could not own any of their own property. it all passed to the man on marriage, or if jointly generated, it was owned by the man. Marital rape was legal. in fact many women were worse than servants. servants could quit. it was in many respects legalized slavery.
You miss the point on trans people. there are many trans women that are doing so in good faith, i know some of them. But all people are just people. And a number of trans women are nothing of the sort but men who are using the current unclarity to take advantage of it. like: rapists being put in women's prisons. There is always someone who will take advantage, malevolence is an innate part of the human condition.
Your third point: most people are unaware that membership in a native american tribe is determined by the tribal council. (NAs are people too, just like everyone else, good and bad.) So, it should not come as a shock that there are instances of a tribal clan becoming dominant on a tribal council and then redefining what it means to be a tribal member so that all members of a competing clan are kicked out. Some of them in fact have lived nowhere else, speak only their traditional language, and have had little contact with non-Native america. What are these people? Well, they are not Native Americans. Native Americans are people who have enough blood quantum to be a member of the tribe. They have a number assigned to them. IF they make their living as a jeweler they can't call it native American jewelry. And they are claiming identity in "another culture or race" after having been denied the right to do so. What about the black slaves of Native American tribes? They gained their freedom after the Civil War but many had been part of the tribe for a long time and were given membership by the government. There were many who were not slaves but who had been adopted or married into the tribe. they were considered members of another culture.
(Oh, btw, the reasons that the tribes kick people out and that they kicked out all black members [overturned by the courts, which is very unusual] is for the money. Now that gambling is making so much, it is portioned out to members. fewer members, more money.) what about a white baby being adopted by a married black american family? who grows up in solely a black culture. what are they? People have been going in and out of other cultures and races as well a very long time. I don't think your points are subtle enough in their analysis.
The "feelings" of men who identify as women should not take legal precedence over the rights and feelings of biological women, yet that is EXACTLY what the Equality Act will do if it's ever passed by the Senate (It's already been passed by the Democratic House) and signed by Joe Biden as he wants. Women have been thrown under the bus and run over by the Democratic Party. That is a fact!
Acknowledged - my points lacked subtlety, partly because of my ignorance of the direct experience of being a woman or a "racialized" person in society. It was my best attempt to explain what still seems obvious to me: why "blackface" deserves condemnation in a way that trans women embodying/dressing-as women does not (per the original comment by DavidH).