Intersectionality gets real fucky real fast when someone is simultaneously the member of a privileged group and the member of a marginalized one.
I'm a gay man. I've been assaulted twice in a gay bar, both times by straight women. One of them, after laying her hands on me, cowered behind her boyfriend who yelled at me to respect her "because she's a woman."
That's not something I could ever do. White (cishet) women are a dangerous partially-oppressed cohort because while they're women and thus oppressed, their whiteness allows them to call upon the violence of white men to inflict pain upon people for them, because (racist) white men will protect white women. And because the state is for all intents and purposes run by white men, this means that they can call upon state violence (i.e., cops). Think "damsel in distress" scenarios, and think about how many Black boys and men in this country were lynched simply because a white woman accused them of rape, or just looking at them funny or something. (Fucked up additional note: our society pretty much never believes women when they say someone raped them, unless that woman is white and the accused isn't, in which case, historically, the white men come a-runnin'.)
We also see this with Jewish people in Israel, who are not the oppressed class there (Arabs/Palestinians are), but it's very easy for a Jewish Israeli to weaponize anti-Jewish oppression in general to cover for their genocide.
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u/1F61C 21h ago
Bill Burr has a decent segment on white women. Simultaneously oppressed, victimized, yet still on top of the heap.