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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White middle aged women are sandwiched in their family life between their children and their parents, but also in their professional life, between the patriarchy and DEI. We're everyone's caretaker, but also everyone's bad guy, and no matter how hard we work, in every aspect of our lives, we're never a priority for promotion.  [/quote]

White women are never a priority? What?[/quote]

Who prioritizes white women, beyond putting an idealized version of one on a pedestal as a beauty standard (that almost no actual white women live up to)?

I don't think white women have it as bad as people who aren't white but I don't think white women have it good either*. And we are at this weird juncture where white women are not allowed to complain about ways in which they are oppressed, or even point them out, because of a desire to boil white women down to their whiteness only (it's like the the opposite of intersectionalism). Also, this movement to hold white women accountable for their privilege and racism? It's been most embraced by white men. I wonder why....

*I know that people will say "wtf I know white women who have it good" and I do too but every single of one of them has it so good because of the support/protection of a white man. And that doesn't mean all white women married to or the children of white men have it good either, because most white men don't protect/support the white women in their lives -- they ignore, use, resent, or abuse them. And even many of the white men who offer protection/support do so for selfish reasons (think Donald Trump and Ivanka) because they view the white women in they orbit as assets and reflections of their own glory.

Being a white woman is not some joyous experience. It's a glass prison.[/quote]

Try being a middle aged black woman.[/quote]

No one said this wasn't harder. Just pointing out that being a middle aged white woman is not the prize people seem to think it is. Having it easier than a black woman is not the same as "having it easy."[/quote]

Who has it easy?[/quote]

Is it a contest? Both can be true. [/quote]

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