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[rivka]

I'm so angry about this I don't know what to do.

AIDS, which while a horrible thing that we should all be political about, is not by and large a female sexuality problem? (I think this is why we're so loathe to include it--by and large, and my deepest sympathy to anyone who is an exception to this, this is not our problem.

One of my female patients died this week. It's a good thing HIV isn't a women's problem, isn't it?

I'm just sitting here shaking.

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[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

Human suffering is always trumped by $GROUP's suffering, doncha know?

Jeeze, what a fuckwit.d

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Women like this give feminism a bad name.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I think, upon more sober reflection, that she's probably falling into the same trap that many have, and thinks that "feminist issues" are synonymous with "white middle-class women's issues." Because AIDS primarily affects poor minority women in North America, and African and Asian women worldwide, it's not really a feminist issue.

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

Sadly, that makes sense, too (I don't think your response-in-anger makes any less sense for having been angry, btw).

The following is screamingly anecdotal, but I recall when I was talking with black, female co-workers in the mid- to late-80s a lot of them didn't seem supportive of the Equal Rights Amendment. Mostly because (if my memory serves) they saw it presented as something by and for white women.
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