Feminists

how it is FEMINISM that is supposed to be this "truly liberatory politics seeking the freedom of all oppressed people".

I'm waiting for all the other supposedly progressive -ologies to take on equal responsibility for liberating women, and make equal acknowledgements of how their past and also present politics fail to do that ...

Women have battled the black power movement in the US, trade unions, the left generally ... over and over and over again throughout decades of history, seeking to have women's own disadvantages and interests recognized and addressed, both in the group's efforts and within the groups themselves. Women themselves took the lead in the struggle for other people's equality: the anti-slavery movement, efforts on behalf of children (child labour, child sexual exploitation ...). And always it was the back of the bus for women, if not thrown under it.

When women stood up and started fighting for OURSELVES for a change, we were the bad guys for not including every single other form of oppression in our battle.

How come?

I'm a working-class kid. Frankly, my class has hindered my success in life, and affected my self-image, considerably more than my sex. But my sex is why I was a victim of sexual violence. Women in the 1% are victims of sexual violence too.

Why is it that when women stood up and fought for themselves, against the disadvantages and oppression that all women share, after all the history of putting themselves second and being put second (if that) by every other disadvantaged group, women, feminists, need to be maligned for not organizing the great big fight against everything wrong with society everywhere?

Forgive me if I just get a taste of the same old same old when I hear that song.