Cousin_Martha_Corey on Nostr: I think being a slave is a lot more traumatic than being a woman in America today, ...

I think being a slave is a lot more traumatic than being a woman in America today, but the analogy -- if it applies -- would be not being nice to other white people, including abolitionists, as a black American slave in the 18th or 19th century. I mean, if they were too traumatized, okay. I say that about you, too, if you feel too traumatized. I'm not trying to prohibit female separatism. However, if you look at someone like Frederick Douglass, who made friends with Susan B. Anthony while the system of slavery was still legal, I think you're looking at someone who was right to broaden his view.

I don't think I am able to make you understand my concerns about humanity. They are based on the rise of technology and the surveillance state. I think we are rapidly losing the value we once put on the individual, and the concept of human beings running their own lives alongside other humans instead of deferring to distant rulers for every tiny thing -- soon, not even human distant rulers, but entirely tech-based ones.

I also think that dividing humanity is a tool that is intentionally used to conquer us more quickly and easily. I noticed, a few years ago, that "right-wingers" (mostly white) were talking about "getting the government off our backs," and black leftists, along with white leftist allies, were talking about reducing the power of the police. I started seeing that it was essentially the same request, and yet, the two groups were bitter enemies.

I don't want feminism to become something that causes women to lose sight of other issues; I want it to be a value held alongside other values. I also want to make sure I don't sit around concerning myself primarily with the perversions of low-level men when a lot of higher-level things are going on.