#if you read the guardian's IWD article i'm sure my examples seem very familiar!

[wild-at-mind]

Every International Women's Day, you will find that progressive publications publish their manditory IWD article about how we should focus more on women in the global south and yet we can't because upper class white women have their pink cupcakes and their CEO jobs exploiting the working woman by being customers and crying about Barbie not getting an Oscar nomination. I always read it and think....I have really good news for you, journalist writing this, about what you could do with the article you're being paid to write!!

#IWD #honestly where is the sport in these tired rhetorical touchstones-pink cupcakes or pussy hats- it's tired #and fyi everyone i saw talking about the barbie movie oscars thing was clearly not being fully serious/serious at all #i am not clear how wealthy women in particular are exploiting people by being customers- #IWD isn't a public holiday that the low paid still have to work #anyway look class disparity is really important to talk about and CEOs as a concept are not value neutral #but women being CEOs not just men is value neutral- as in it's not worse when women do it #i just get tired of the same point being made every year and them never doing the thing they could be doing- spotlight global south women #i really feel strongly that people only like doing this if they can make snarky tweetable points- for it's own sake it's nothing to them #if you read the guardian's IWD article i'm sure my examples seem very familiar! #I recommend 'feminism and nationalism in the third world' by kumari jayawardena #it covers the history of activism thought and gendered struggle of women in specific asian and middle eastern countries #it's a dense and very factual read- definitely not a snarky tweets book #though my edition has a foreword addressed to western feminists that's the only area it even slightly overlaps with that kind of book #oh yeah forgot to say it only goes up to the 1980s (was originally published in '86) #but it's sooo interesting to see the tension between nationalism and anticolonialism and women's liberation laid out #and how the different classes of women experienced it differently