A white woman as a savior of all women


We are living  pretty weird timesWe allegedly are crossing the  feminism of the third wave, but apparently it's a wave that does nothing, but washing  the other ones. Everything seems to fall apart,to be deconstructed until being demolished or distorted, in the best caseOn the other hand some leftists and the cultural relativism dilute any clear message. Sometimes things really are black and white, no shades of gray. Sometimes you have to make precise spectral analysesSo in feminism  sometimesthings are clearAnd painfulPatriarchy exists, destroy lives, mindsin every momenteven nowWomen are taught to be slaves,to adapt as slaveswith more or less "rights". Any approach whichdoesn't go to the root of things, the existence of patriarchy, it's just a cosmetic measureIt's like youplug a hole in a dam, but you still remain in an inundated / flooded  area 

It looks absolutely amazing, but there is feminism that accepts prostitution, calling prostitutes "sex workers". Well yes, and slaves are all kinds. Can illegal immigrant workers be called "workers inagriculture, constructionetc.They work, but why do it? Like prostituteseven if they are not forced bypimpsas well as women who are not kidnapped, but married to abusive men. They have sex with those men (without any pleasure ) and remain with them, they even have children fathered by these menmay have multiple abortions, but only because they have no choiceIt's about survival forced by poverty. But survival in the  Nazi or communist camps is still survival. And if there, people make survival strategiesBut one can't say living like that it's a way of lifeIn dictatorships have to adaptBut one can'ttell that dictatorship is a legitimate lifestyleI'm saying it as a person who saw a  communist dictatorshipProstitutionand here I'd  exclude luxury prostitution, although I am not sure about that, is not a lifestyle, it's a horrible way of survival. Many heterosexual relationships motivated by  survival are  prostitution too. If you say that these relationships  are worthy alternative lifestyles, motivated by realchoiceswhere the reward is more than survival, you commit  a crime against the people who live like that
Cultural relativism and blaming Eurocentrism (which I agree with to some extent) have absolutelyhorrible consequences such as oxymorons like Islamic or Christian feminismWell then we can talk about feminist rape, why not? If there is  feminist burqawhy not going farther?
It seems politically incorrect to say that the situation of women in Islam is unacceptable because it would hurt the feelings of Muslim womenI mean saying that rape is horrible hurts the  feelings of raped womenOr what? I'm all for tolerancebut not until there is nothing left to claim
As for Eurocentrismit existsis more prevalent than we think, it has deeper rootsWestern science is not the only approach to knowledge and it developed in certain special conditions. But if a  secularEuropean white woman who cautions that women in Islam are living in an unacceptable waythat poor women often experience a form of prostitution and abuse, prostitution is a crime, she does not it because of Eurocentrism, contempt for other cultures or classism. Not all the time, anyway!  
When we ask for something, we refer to something / someone who has more than us. When blackslaves were talking about freedom, they use the whites's status as a reference system the blackliberation movement in the US uses the the social, economic, political status of whites as a reference system. What would have happened if Martin Luther King have accepted the lifestyle of blacks, meaning unemployment, lack of education, poverty and violence as a legitimate lifestyle, which is not allowed to talk about in order to avoid  offending  the feelings of those who live like that?
Western culture is not something extraordinary and whites are not extraordinary peopleEuropeanseven less. But we cannot deny that the westerners have the highest social, economic status,  they enjoy the most freedom and they have the best medicineThings can change, but now this is case. Moreover,other cultures are more advanced in other respects. But when we ask for something,we demand something, when it comes to individual freedom, civil rights, health, we refer to the West. Sure, it's good to get more, but even so
Saying that a white  educated middle class woman does something disgusting when she tells Muslim women that their way of life is oppressive, the same the impoverished women trapped in abusiveheterosexual relationships or prostitutes, she doesn't disregard any of them. She does it just because she doesn't  consider that she, as a white and educated western women deserves more than otherwomen. Just for that.
Some leftists, accepting the misery of poor people's lives in oppressive culturesonly perpetuate the conditions those people are living inmaintaining their privileges for themselvesWhat should dowesternersespecially if they are doctors when encounter people living in traditional societies?  Should they leave incantations and traditional medical practices like sex with virgins as a medicine against AIDSintact and not give them modern medicines because these medicines may offend them?  
I am an educated white middle class woman who does not consider herself special and wants to get everything through individual meritsnot because she's whiteeducatedor middle classAny person with similar merits, wherever she/he is, deserves similar social and economic status. I still want a high SPF cream for myself. It's the only thing I feel entitled to have as a white person. .   

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