3rd World...

It’s awfully hard to not be a white, middle class woman. I can imagine how privileged these women do feel must have felt during the time they felt most oppressed as compared to their “colored” sisters, of course. Is it even appropriate to use that term or will I be reprimanded for wanting to include all women of color as one’s relative? I don’t necessarily believe it’s because Third World Women’s connection to feminism is weak due to the overbearing differences due to the color of one’s skin, the money they make or their experiences. I believe it’s the subtle ethnocentrism instilled into these feminist ideologies that these Third World women are excluded from. But wait--who am I to know I'm only in an introduction class!

Of course, most people don’t notice it and I may be exaggerating my take on how feminism has developed through the last century but notice how it is so difficult for most feminist writers to include people of ALL ethnicity, race, and gender--good things these posts are anonymous. And for that fact it is because third world women history has been on “short supply.” Do you see how difficult it is to include every person from every background? Mohanty makes a lot of good points on how this “short supply” has grown through the years but finding a way to include all women from the world that a term like “third world women” had to be made shows the overbearing differences in what every woman and/or man wants for the female race.

I have to say that the politics of feminism is rather confusing.