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You didn’t find the slides so bad? Really?

Those slides present a rather extreme ideology, which is not based on (and is often flatly contradicted by) evidence.

Yeah, the slides are normal and reasonable. You think it's extreme ideology to say that people often treat men different than women?

Any ideology which hinges on the "blank slate" hypothesis is extreme, insofar as that hypothesis is very obviously false. Furthermore, intersectionalism is essentially a conspiracy theory.

That's, uh, a wild statement. You don't think people disadvantaged on multiple axes have a harder time than people on one or none? Because that's what intersectionality means.

No one is on "one or none" "axis of disadvantage". Everyone is born with many advantages and many disadvantages. Intersectionality is concerned exclusively with the the advantages held by white men in Western democracies. Women have many advantages that men don't have, but intersectionalists don't care about those.

Western society has a long history of producing ideologies centered on guilt and sexual propriety, and intersectionality is just the latest iteration. It's a descendant of puritanism.

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