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In the book Gender Trouble, philosopher and theorist Judith Butler writes about how the political problem that feminism encounters is “the assumption that the term women denotes a common identity.”
Butler writes how the term “woman” fails to be exhaustive as “gender is not always constituted coherently or consistently in different historical contexts, and because gender intersects with racial, class, ethnic, sexual and regional modalities of discursively constituted identities. As a result, it becomes impossible to separate out ‘gender’ from the political and cultural intersections in which it is invariable produced and maintained.” (Gender Trouble, pg. 4—5).
Patriarchal Brahminism and Hindutva misogyny isn’t just restricted to men — it can be projected and practiced through interconnecting forms of oppression by any gender.
This instance of a woman being behind a repeatedly violent app design that attempts to dehumanize Muslim women, is a reminder of implicit biases that uphold a generally accepted model of femininity’s synonymity with non-violence.
The silence behind how any gender (not just cis men) can cause harm and violence, is an attempt to erase the lived experiences of those who are being harmed.
It is a reproduction of a patriarchal system that erases how women with religious and caste privilege can practice oppression and targeted harassment against Muslim women, DBA women, women who are trans and femme folks at intersecting marginalized identities.