RE: The Orville
March 3, 2019 at 1:38 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2019 at 1:41 pm by Yonadav.)
(March 3, 2019 at 12:53 pm)Editz Wrote: I looked up the wiki page on intersectionality but can't really jibe your usage of the term with the introduction and am reluctant to read up on the whole page...could you please explain what you mean by the term?
Intersectionality is an ideology that borders on religion for some, and it is being taught on college campuses as inarguable truth. There is a certain amount of validity to it, but not when taken as far as it is by its adherents.
Imagine the straight white man's world as main street. Everyone knows main street. There is nothing about it that is not understood by those who don't live on mainstreet.
In America, black street intersects main street. Those who live on black street understand black street and main street. Those who live on main street don't understand black street, and are prone to misunderstanding things where black and main intersect.
The same thing for women street.
The same thing for gay street.
A black homosexual woman understands main, gay, and black streets.
The more intersections you have, the greater your understanding.
The more intersections you have, the more confusing your issues are to those who live on main street. If you are a black gay woman who is being discriminated against, is it because you are black, or because you are a woman, or because you are gay, or because of all of those? If you say that you are being discriminated against because you are a woman, then women who aren't gay or black can testify that they are being treated fairly. If because you are gay, then gay white women and gay black men can testify that they are being treated fairly. And so on.
People who have intersections understand more. Intersections give you wisdom. Most adherents of intersectionality will say that straight white men can't possibly have any of this wisdom, no matter what. Attempts to understand this wisdom do not confer any of it upon you. You can't understand what it is like to be black. You can't understand what it is like to be a woman. And you can't understand what it is like to be gay. But black people, women, and gay people can understand what it is like to be a straight white man, because they live in a straight white man's world.
Like I said earlier, there is a certain amount of validity to this perspective. But there is also a good deal of batshit crazy.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
