... we never say the first rule of patriarchy out loud.
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Are woman attacking each other?
Yes, unfortunately.
Like just off the top of my head, TERFs?
I should have also mentioned the demise of the National Action Committee in Canada, once a huge and powerful voice for women and feminism in Canada but torn apart from within by infighting and, specifically, by the upper middle class white women ignoring what black and, even worse, native women were saying about their experience.
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White women worried about salaries and getting their asses smacked in the workplace.Native women worried about getting raped by family members and then murdered. (Don't believe the first part? Read Tanya Tagaq's book. Just have a lot of tissues on standby.
It began in 1971 and by the mid-80s had 700 women's groups under its umbrella making it by far the single largest lobbying group in Canada on behalf of women. But the aforementioned issues started to arise and the NAC tore itself apart from within as black women and native women brought up their own issues and were dismissed while the white upper middle class women circled the wagons against any and all critique.
This weakened them as a force so thoroughly that the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney thought (correctly) it could drop federal funding of the NAC without facing pushback, leading it to scale back its activities drastically to the point of irrelevance. It was finally mercifully put out of its organizational misery in 2007 with its formal dissolution, but it had long before that been a non-issue.
That was very much a case of women attacking each other while the patriarchy looked on with glee.
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