Kyriarchy is a weird thing. And for all that different axes and avenues of privilege aren't the same, a lot of the ways of talking about them are really similar. So, "I don't see gender." "I don't see sex." So on.
It's this sort of "Really? Do you at least see how much of society is built on those things? Do you see how you're so much more likely to die of violence as a black person or so much more likely to suffer sexual assault as a trans person?" People feel noble and egalitarian by saying "No! People should be seen without these things," but just refusing to see those things without undoing the societal crap that does so much damage actually does more harm than help, because it contributes to those things continuing unchecked.
In any case, that was one of the most eloquent ways I'd seen it put. Way to go, Samuel R. Delaney. (How one gets "Chip" from that name...)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
chiming
no subject
Date: 2010-09-18 01:55 am (UTC)From:It's this sort of "Really? Do you at least see how much of society is built on those things? Do you see how you're so much more likely to die of violence as a black person or so much more likely to suffer sexual assault as a trans person?" People feel noble and egalitarian by saying "No! People should be seen without these things," but just refusing to see those things without undoing the societal crap that does so much damage actually does more harm than help, because it contributes to those things continuing unchecked.
In any case, that was one of the most eloquent ways I'd seen it put. Way to go, Samuel R. Delaney. (How one gets "Chip" from that name...)