User:D.valdez32/Intersectionality

Intersectionality itself was originally centralized around the emphasis of race and how it affects women of color as they live throughout their daily lives constantly challenging the social structural barrier of ‘whiteness’. Over time this concept has been manipulated and some of those who practice and research intersectionality have begun to ‘whiten’ intersectionality by rebranding the emphasis of intersectionality to be based on other things. This re-marginalizes women of color by taking the social issues women of color face and talking about the effects of race less and less. This doesn’t mean that there is a limit to what kind of women can and can not practice intersectionality but, this sense of ‘whitening’ intersectionality accommodates what white women want to hear. In turn it rewrites intersectionality in a western viewpoint, inheritably excludes ideas from other world viewpoints. Many people tend to believe that women tend to live a constant, violent free, non-conflicted, and passive lifestyle from their day to day lives. Many societies across the globe have led people to believe that women are weak, submissive, and live lives without facing any sort of conflict. That is not the case for many women around the world because, in a post-colonial era, women face many different conflicts everyday no matter their skin color, sexuality, class, ability, and any other factors in between. In an era where colonialism has shaped many societies to become the way they are today, the actions and conflicts of the past created reactions and conflicts in the present that women face everyday of their lives. Women battle many structural limitations that have been placed on them throughout history and every woman's battle and limitations they experience depend on where they stand and how intersectionality plays a role in their life. Intersectionality affects women of color a lot differently than it affects white women or men of color. For example, a white woman may be taken more seriously in a higher education job than a woman of color may be because a white woman may seem like she is more intelligent. She may seem more intelligent. Or maybe in a heavy labor job a woman of color may seem more fitted for her position because she may seem more strong, and resilient. This is because of how all women are portrayed by society’s image and that image continues to be portrayed by how intersectionality is practiced. It is evident that these comparisons are made due to what is seen in the western viewpoint.