Why White Feminists Need To Understand Ellen Pence’s 1982 Essay

IfI told you that recently a white feminist got very aggressive with me, and could not understand that other groups of women have their own experiences within their community, different from white women’s experiences and assumptions of what it means to be a woman, would you be surprised? Depends on who you are, I guess. I imagine the white woman who reads this tries to look as innocent as possible, while the black, brown, or minority woman who reads it smirks with a ‘I told you so’ look on her face. I got into a spat with this white feminist, and in the end I had to side glance her, then end my interaction by telling her clearly, ‘I said what I said, that’s it.’ I then left her and her “fierce-white-feminist” attitude and issues alone. Sadly, it’s not the first time I’ve had this experience. This is one of the main reasons I don’t call myself a “feminist.” I’m a “womanist” according to the definition the black women before me who coined this term meant it — in response to white feminism’s exclusion of black, brown, and other minority women and the issues they face that are different from a white woman’s. <a href="https://medium.com/fourth-wave/why-white-feminists-need-to-understand-ellen-pences-1982-essay-abe35f27252a">Click Here</a>