#white women and just improving the world for the rich cishet mentally healthy/non disabled white woman with no other oppressions

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I’m sorry, but the people who have been calling Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land by Marina white feminism or “girl bossing” need to take a step back and self reflect to realize that they are simply uncomfortable with hearing women discuss the fact that they are oppressed for being women. Ofc intersectional identities are further oppressed, but Marina literally addresses a number of other oppressions through the entire album.

Man’s World: discusses an lgbt issue

Purge the Poison: discusses racism, discusses the damage of capitalism, discusses US exceptionalism as an issue, discusses fat oppression/the damaging obsession with thinness, discusses mental health issues

Highly Emotional People: literally discusses a male issue of the negative “men don’t cry” idea

New America: discusses US exceptionalism as an issue, discusses issues that the indigenous people of the US have faced, discusses racism and racist police brutality, discusses the privilege of being financially stable, discusses cultural appropriation/the issue with not acknowledging that many popular music styles originated from black culture

And I’m sure I’m missing other topics that are within the songs on the album. So if after listening to this album, you thought it was white feminism or “girl bossing” because Marina, a woman, discusses the oppression of women, along with all of these other issues of different identities, then you should ask yourself why you are so uncomfortable with acknowledging that women are an oppressed identity as well.

#i was so delighted to see that she discusses issues of different people on this album #but why the fuck do people have such an issue with the fact that she discusses womens oppression #marina #marina and the diamonds #marina diamandis #ancient dreams in a modern land #feminism #feminist #intersectional feminist #terfs do not interact #i also wanna add that white feminism is an issue and I know it is bad but the thing is this album was clearly not just about feminism for #white women and just improving the world for the rich cishet mentally healthy/non disabled white woman with no other oppressions #and people who are coming to that conclusion in my opinion have an issue with women acknowledging their oppression as women #feel free to critique or leave your thoughts or disagree #oh also also this is not abt if you don’t like the album bc you don’t like the vocals or instrumentals or style #or even if you don’t like the lyric writing. it’s specifically about saying the album promotes white feminism or girlbossing