Elle Beau ❇︎
3 min readAug 4, 2023

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OK, but noting that it's unfair to blame victims for driving haters to extremist organization is not saying that gender and race are in some sort of contest for which is worse.

And FYI, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were both ardent abolitionists who absolutely did not see themselves as more oppressed than Black people and worked for decades to improved the lives of Black people. Try to stick to some actual facts here, please.

Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 into a Quaker family that believed in social equality. By the age of 17, she was circulating anti-slavery petitions, eventually collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery. Anthony is best known, however, for her work on behalf of women’s suffrage. Soon after meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton (a fellow abolitionist) in 1851, the two became good friends and fervent collaborators in the fight to dismantle slavery as well as to secure voting rights for women.

Anthony supported citizenship for Black people but opposed any attempt to link it with a reduction in the status of women. Her ally Stanton agreed, saying “if that word ‘male’ be inserted, it will take us a century at least to get it out.” In fact, it did take 50 years after the passing of the 15th Amendment for women to also get the right to vote.

In 1866, Stanton and Anthony organized the Eleventh National Women’s Rights Convention, the first since the Civil War began. Unanimously adopting a resolution introduced by Anthony, the convention voted to transform itself into the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), whose purpose was to campaign for the equal rights of all citizens, especially the right of suffrage. The leadership of the new organization included such prominent activists as Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, and Frederick Douglass. (source)

"Anthony expressed a vision of a racially integrated society that was radical for a time when abolitionists were debating the question of what was to become of the slaves after they were freed, and when people like Abraham Lincoln were calling for African Americans to be shipped to newly established colonies in Africa. In a speech in 1861, Anthony said, "Let us open to the colored man all our schools ... Let us admit him into all our mechanic shops, stores, offices, and lucrative business avocations ... let him rent such pew in the church, and occupy such seat in the theatre ... Extend to him all the rights of Citizenship."[60]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony

And no, social structures have not always been patriarchal. That's a social system that has only arisen in the past 5k years -about 3% of human history. And the fact that women can have babies does not justify or explain why 1 in 3 women will be raped, why 85% of girls start to get sexually harassed as children, and why there’s still an authority gap where even women at the highest levels have to fight to be taken seriously, why most of the poor are female, and fully half of all women who are murdered are killed by current or former domestic partners.

I'm able to care about your problems and concerns at the hands of a domination hierarchy culture as well as ones that affect me more directly. I don't need to make it into a contest or act like I'm the only one who has been subjected to oppression. It's a shame that you can't do the same.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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