Social media in general really wants to put oppression into neat little boxes. Only trans women experience X, only Black people experience Y, only disabled people with this specific combination of circumstances experience Z. And if you don't fit their idea of who experiences what, then you're lying and appropriating and your pain doesn't matter.
But that's not how oppression works - for starters, bigots don't actually care what you are exactly! And so a bunch of people are out there gatekeeping pain instead of trying to fix things, and a bunch of other people are hurt and frustrated that their pain is being dismissed. And no actual work gets done.
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Date: 19/1/25 14:21 (UTC)But that's not how oppression works - for starters, bigots don't actually care what you are exactly! And so a bunch of people are out there gatekeeping pain instead of trying to fix things, and a bunch of other people are hurt and frustrated that their pain is being dismissed. And no actual work gets done.