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For real, I love this article so damn much. It’s everything I’ve felt about social justice feminism for several years, written very compassionately. Excellent work.

I especially resonate to the part about empathy for the “privileged" as it’s made me very sad seeing even friends of mine who are feminists or LGBTQ, calling straight cis white men “trash" or “shit" when actually most of the people I love the most are men, many of whom are white, straight and/or cis.

Likewise I very strongly resonate with the “desire to prove you’re oppressed thereby not an oppressor and bad person, holding you back from living a fully empowered life". I don’t feel I’m oppressed for being a woman, or for being bisexual, even though I’ve experienced sexism and even worse homophobia. My experiences were bad, but most of my life is very good. And everyone experiences bad things in different ways. A supposedly privileged straight white male might be abused at home, might be a victim of sexual assault, might struggle with mental illness, addiction, chronic illness etc. Labelling individuals this way discourages us from finding common ground and empathizing with each other’s pain.