@Cousin_Isobel Yup. That's exactly what they're going for. What many young (and even some old) black women seem to not get is that regardless of the lives of black and white women looking very different if we're talking about American history in general, is that a woman going through hell does not make them male.

From various viewpoints it's like the issue of race in America in particular makes women less able to see all the ways patriarchy morphs their lives. Amongst black women you've got some who make their whole personality about partnering with white men who they view will see them as human and treat them better than black men. Then you've got the type of black women who absolve black men of everything under the sun because all their faults are due to being seen as beneath white men. Even a white friend of mine goes on and on about how she's done with straight men! Instead she's only going to date "queer men and non-men." Ah yes, because there's such a huge difference when a man declares he's a plural.

I can lay out the oppression of women by men while also acknowledging that there are white women (and women of other races too) out there who want little to nothing to do with me because I'm black. That's not going to make me want to flock back and tether myself to my original captors. I'm perfectly capable of tackling multiple issues at once lol.