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submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/dontyouknowwhoiam@lemmy.world
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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    It's as if, like, if you are a woman, and also in a disfavoured racial category, like, where they, uh, have overlap? Where they meet? It's not the same as either one individually but its own, I guess nexus? I feel like there's a better word for this

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    but being a woman isn’t really a minority tho

    It depends on the context. In a Victoria’s Secret fashion show? Yeah, probably not the minority. In a tech role, which women are systemically harassed and bullied out of pursuing? Yeah, women are probably a minority.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    That's not what minority means in the sociological context. Volume is mathematical. Poor people are a minority and there's more of them than the 1%. Being a minority is about lack of power, prestige and property. And intersectionality is the more formal term, but 'double minority' gets the point across.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago

    @ReiRose@lemmy.world has it right, the term and idea is intersectionality.

    apropos of nothing, intersectionality came out of critical race theory's analyses of black womens outcomes in the legal system. the particular combination of oppression is literally the textbook example.

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