[Maru]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

With all due respect Maru I never said all black people had the same experiences or women, of course they don't, no two people have the same experiences.

Also, I was in particular taking exception to TS telling the women in this thread that they don't really have worries about womens issues but are just trying to hide their transphobia

@Bold No, I don't think you intended that at all, and I wouldn't accuse you of such. I just think there's a little bit of loaded verbiage that's out there to the way we word things...

For example, when we're having a discussion about the experiences of entire groups... some of us can sound like we're speaking for entire groups (I too, am guilty of this, and am trying to reform my wording/thought forms away from it).

I think having discussion about how some things appear on the outside are just as useful to those who tend to be on the inside of an issue... but when we write something for example, and preface it "As a woman"... it doesn't have much meaning beyond... "well, I'm a woman and as so I think..."... but actually, the other side, it's open to interpretation... it can very easily be taken to mean "well, I'm not a woman, so am I being told where my place is...?"... it's the opposite of mansplaining... which is why I think that term actually is bollocks.