Feminism Subcategories?

The idea that all women are not included in the same feminism category still seems to bother me. I think that even though black women have different set backs to overcome than white women, both are still female. In a lot of ways black women are stronger and have many valuable traits to offer to the feminism movement that white women would not understand. They need to be included in the same category to teach white women. Black women have to overcome the issue of all racial prejudices before equality between women and men can be reached, however, this means that everyone needs to overcome these issues. This is not a valid reason to separate the two categories for me.

It if anything adds to the struggle which we are facing. Although we should acknowledge the fact that the history of women's lives are different, we should also acknowledge the fact that women as a whole struggle with their role in society. Double standards regarding men and women affect everyone. It is just one aspect to an identity. If women start separating themselves into different categories than their will be tons of subcategories upon subcategories. I don't necessarily have a problem that their would be subcategories but if this is so, than white women should also have a subcategory apart from feminism, because white women also struggle with different issues than black women. It could be argued that white women struggle with the pressure that society sets on solely white women. When we were told in class to think of a perfectly feminine women all of us thought of a white women. This shows that not only are many associations with beauty and white women skewed, but also that for a longer period of time a specific type of idealism and constraint has been put on white women.

Being raised in the south alone has set me apart from other white women. Overall women in the south have been taught to cater to men's every need. Still today in my household after a large family meal or a holiday the women, without question, take the plates from in front of the men, and go to the kitchen to clean. This is after of course they have prepared the meal and all accommodations for that day. Women in the south also have to overcome the assumptions that every young teenage girl is going to become pregnant and have babies and not be able to provide for herself. So does this mean that women in the south should have a cajun women's movement? Each group of people coming from different locations and backgrounds offer their own insight to what womanhood and the female form is actually about and how to overcome the separation between men and women. As long as all of these different groups of women would unite under one category of feminism, or any other title, than I think I could fully support it.