more comment (re: women's history month under capitalism)

[m_d_h]

You put your finger on something that is widely ignored on the Left in the US — that by glorifying women, racial/ethnic minorities, LGBTQ, neurodivergent, differently abled, etc., as members of these categories, we paint an inaccurate picture of humanity. We're not all awesome in everything we do, especially not because we belong to one or more of these arbitrary categories. And neither are white men all horrible in everything they do because they're white men. We lose sight of the reality that we're all just people, all of us flawed, all of us dealing with difficult emotions and traumatic pasts, all of us feeling some amount of insecurity about the present and future. Some of us have more skills than others, some of us were luckier than others, and so forth. Some of us are more ethical than others. And power structures are as fucked up regardless of whether the people at the top are a rainbow collection or a monochrome gang.